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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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loo Kilauea and Manna Loa, This digression from the chronological record of the Kilaiieaii eru;)tiotis seemed necessar)^ to explain the geograph)- of the emptyings of its great cauldron, and will save time later when on,r notes are more condensed, I have been through Pniia many times, and have tried to trace from native tradition this or that eruption in the lava flows that, generally speaking, look all of an age, hnt I am not certain that any prior t«) that of 1840 can be correctly identified. I put no faith in the identification of that of 1823 on one of the goverument surveys, for Ellis closely questioned the natives and
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FIG. 67. mX)K POOL. could not hear of any outbreak from the natives of Pnna who met him both in Puna and Hilo. That or any other nniy be the flow of 1823 if that flow came to the surface on the Hilo side, which it probably did not, so far as the evidence goes/'^ • ^ Since 1865 the great crater of Kilauea had been slowly filling up by the over- 1868 flow of the northern lakes of 1864, and of various cones between these and Haleniaunnau until the whole central portion was considerabl).- elevated.*** Mauna Loa had also been more or less active since visited by Mr. Horace Mauu and myself in 1S65. Then the great summit crater Mokuaweoweo w-as quite still, and apparently cold and extinct, exhibiting hardly any signs of recent acticm; only on one •'^Thf evitleiict: strongly favors Ihe idetitificalioii of the sliort ilow on tlic other side of Kilauea as that of 1823, anil 1 liavt: ho considered it 011 the iiiai) of Hawaii herewith. «"rhe f«dlowiiiKaecoii»t was prihJislied in iH6g iii the Memoirs of tlit- Boston Society of Natiira) Ilistorj-, vol. i, 564. 1 have here united tlie eruptions of tlie two vcdeanoes. as the wime cause seems to have idfeeled both, and the subsidi- ari- pht'uonieiia ^«irth(iuakes. lamlslitle, and tidal wave, belong to either or !»oth. (478) ^

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