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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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The Erupiion jrom the NortInvest, T55 on was From tlie western shore of Hawaii, at Kawailiae, tlic view of tliis erupti^ ver)' grand. Even in tlie quietest geological times the early morning approach to Kawaihae on the steamer is very fine with the tliree mountains of Hawaii lighted by the rising sun. If it l)e in winter and the snow caps are on Kea and Loa, the ros)' glow is worth the journey to see. On the heacli the little village is still in shadow of the departing night, and the great temple of Puukohohi stands gloomily just be- yond the town, but from Kea to Hualalai the glorn* of the coming day is fast spreading, and the light canoes,of the fishermen are wearing the shore, Mr. Fimieanx eangiit .■:s.im:i$j
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all this, and to the grand dome of Loa was added the two fire fountains and the canopy of lurid cloud of this eruption. The photograph cannot give the colors of the original painting which is in the galler\? of the Bishop Museum, January ly, /<?<?/, Cliarle.H iiuriiliam.—After an al)Seiice of forty-five years I find the crater (of Kilaiiea) nuicli changed since 1835. It was tlieii estimated to be eight hundred feet deep over the wliole .surface. On,e hundred and ten cones over fifty to .seventy-five feet high. There was then a very large lake plainly visible night and day from tlie volcano shanty. Odober f, rh'Si. Tlieo. H. Davies.—The new lake wa.s ver\' active ; tlie bottom e<lge.s of the surrounding rock were reddiot and the snrface of the lake was always in commotion in some places. I counted nine cauldrons at once where the lava was boiling and splasliiog. a perfect blood^Tcd. tlirow- ing great flakes perhaps twenty feet high. We then weut to Haleniaumau, but that was not accessi- ble ; it seemed to have more jets than the new lake. We went farther to the right and came to a pit of fire ; this was hard on the surface but red at the edges, (533)

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