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Identifier: onesummerinhawai00math (find matches)
Title: One summer in Hawaii (electronic resource)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Mather, Helen
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : Cassell Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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his is a grand place forwearing out shoes. Caesar announced his victory overPharnaces in three words, Veni, vidi,vici. Behind a barricade of deadbodies at Waterloo, Cambronne said,The guard dies, but never sur-renders. Many a dead man has livedin an epigram ; and this tourist maygo down to posterity, even if he goesbarefooted, 242 ONE SUMMER IX HAWAII. At 4 p. m. we followed the guidesdown the zigzag trail to the lavabed below. I had taken the precaution to securethe services of one guide for myself,knowing full well the value of a surefoot and strong arm when needed. We wrere each shod with tennis-shoes, cloaked with a warm wrap, andcarried a long stout stick called a crater staff/ while the guides wereladened with canteens of water, bask-ets of luncheon, lanterns, etc. The road was precipitous, and finallydropped abruptly down a sandy slope,and we found ourselves standing on ashining floor of black lava. Horses were stationed at the baseof the hill, to be made use of upon ourreturn.
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ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII. 243 Looking upward from this point,one perceives that the Volcano Houseis at least five hundred feet above thelava floor. The black expanse before me lookedas if the heaving billows of somestormy sea had been suddenly stilled,and turned to stone. As we wendedour way across this floor of adamant,we saw countless fissures, yellow withthe stains of sulphurous vapors.Great coils of obsidian lay like pet-rified cordage about us. Cyclopeanmonsters, with distorted limbs,sprawled across our pathway. Chasmsyawned here and there, which dis-closed profound depths and vast sub-teranean caverns. In and out, up and down, we werepiloted by the guides, with the column 244 ONE SUMMER IX HAWAII. of crater smoke ever in sight as a bea-con ; till, after two hours constanttramp, we came to the verge of acrater, which, a few years before,had been filled with molten lava.The force and volume of the vol-canic matter, however, had steadilydecreased, until only a small poolremains. From t

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