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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.004.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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142 Ki'iaitra and Maitna Loa. rower and thicker stream had formed a crust and become bh'ick in less than a quarter of the distance. In phices th^e hiva met npward inclines, then the cooling, but still flexible, crnst, made a dam and carried the fluid part up and over a rise of some feet. The little lava vSpring was an epitome of a full lava flow, and was more instructive than the immense fier)' floods that from time to time break out from these volcanoes and flow for many miles. Later in the evening this insignificant flow became jnore active, covering twenty acres and giving more light than the lakes themselves.
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Over one of the steam cracks near the Volcano House, on the northeastern bank, and in close proximity to what remained of the sulphur bank, had been built a very rude steam batli. A hut of ample dimensions, a box with a stool in it, and loose boards to fit around the neck of the bather, with a wooden sin ice from the steam crack to tlie l)ox and a slide to regulate the admission of steam, c<mstitnte the entire apparatus. Seated in the box late that evening, in utter darkness, while the attendant had gone outside with the lantern to get a pail of cold water, I heard, in the stillness, sounds deep down in tlie steam crack, rumbling and hard noises total)_v unlike the soft hissing or sputtering of the steam. Fearing that ni)- imagination^ lent strength if not being to these sounds, I went to a crack outside and, at the risk of pitching in head-first, listened carefully. The same noise was lieard distinctly, not unlike tliat of an earth- quake, but feebler. (520)

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