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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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On the Summit of Matina Loa. 203 shown in Mr. Baldwin's picture. The party left the crater the next morning at 7 o'clock, and by evening were at the Volcano House. One of the party declares that the roar of the fire geysers sounded like the smashing of heavy seas against the rocks. The spouting columns of white-hot lava arose to heights of several hundred feet, and would fall back as blackened boulders and huge chunks of congealed cinder." A party from Napoopoo were caught in a severe hailstorm and lost their way, reaching the summit after great hard- ships. *The sight was simply indescrib- able. Columns of fire from forty to a hundred feet were playing, now here, now there. We counted about thirty foun- tains (meaning such fountains as are common in Kilauea's pools): one fully formed cone nearly seventy-five feet high in about the centre of the crater, and one forming a little to the southwest of it. There was smoke or steam everywhere in the crater, but the principal eruption was in a line running through the centre of the crater of Mokuaweoweo from the southeast to northwest." Several of the party state that the entire crater floor was covered with molten lava, but others limit the lava to the stream already mentioned in the northern half of the crater. This party from Napoopoo had a bad time coming up, and had left some of their number in camp at the 11,000 feet level; after spending two hours and a half on the summit they returned rapidly to this camp. In the words of one of the party: **On arrival one of the guides who had remained with the sick one at camp had coffee ready for us, and horses saddled and packed; no time was lost, as we wished to make the edge of the woods before dark. We left the 11,000 level at 11:30 a.m. and proceeded downward at a brisk walk, the animals feeling very cold and eager to walk. Hardly had we descended a thousand feet when the sky darkened and a most terrific snow and electrical storm was upon us. The hail was so pelting and heavy (581)
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FIG. 127. MR. RIDGKWAY'S PI.AN Oi? THK ERUPTION.

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