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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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tie Kilauea and Mauna Loa. I have endeavored to cull what I believe to be authentic. The period we are now considering is covered as follows (I have quoted the record as written; not merely as I think it should have been written): January "J, J^^yj- Between ii and 12 o'clock last niglit Mokuaweoweo started active again. The wind has been from the southward, and the whole day a dense body of smoke has been passing over Kilauea and across Puna off to sea. Weather hazy and top of the mountain seldom visible. Kilauea quite active, but no lava flowing. Jantiary ji, i8jj. Miss Isabella L. Bird.—There was considerable activity, eleven fountains of fire and waves of fire perpetually breaking into fiery spray. March 2,18^3, C. H. Wil- liams.—The lake is at present divided into about two equal parts by a wall of lava. (Plate XlylV, lower view.) March 13, i8j3. J.N. Gil- man.—The south lake is di- vided by a partition which forms two lakes. March 22, 18^3, Godfrey Brown.—South lake was very active, the jets of lava reaching to about fifty feet of the top of the bank. June^^ 18^3, W. L. Green. —The surface of the molten lake appearing to be fifty or sixty feet below the edge.... The level of the molten lava in the lake is some two or three hundred feet above the general level of the depression (a mile or so long), over which you walk to the lake. Mauna lyoa is now active. July 2, 18J3, S. W. Pogue. —Very little action. July ^, i8y3, I^uther Sev- erance.—Crater active; lakes full to the brim. (See Fig. 71, which seems to represent this phase of Halemaumau (South Lake). Unfortunately the present owner of the photographic negative cannot assure me of its date.) July 8, i8'/3, G. Jones.—At 9 a.m. the lava with which the south lake has been filled for some time broke through on the eastern slope facing the Volcano House, and has been running towards and into the basin (central depression of 1868). On the 12th the south lake was very active and still full, although the new flow of over half a mile in width still continued. The crater on the summit (Mokuaweoweo) was also active. July 28, 18^3, H. Birgham found both lakes and the cones tolerably active, and saw the brook of lava flowing down the side of the south lake. August II, i8'j3. Dr. O. B. Adams.—The outflow from the south lake still flows and is visible through a large crack. It appears to be about twenty feet wide and flows like a mountain torrent. C498)
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