Show 1 c l i flOW k r r COUNTRY LI 10 Lav 10 Lava a flowing Sept s pt l' l I T. M II lJ onto ono th th- th Kau Esau Kauts yaN volcano lilt wA months manU of or ne nc- nc eta ts 10 in eight M hen mountain up s a rs 1 tiU pi s b bum built height and two rn In feet ert b b Cred 7 real l rd hU co covered O Hoe S Ed J I miles of or country with a n thick coating of or volcanic deposit depo lt The Tho Kau flow burst from the southern lank flank of ot the volcano about six miles tI from the iLc mans main crater December 21 1 last I It is 18 still in action and ami shows tow few signs aln of or diminishing in volume In point of of or orI duration of or tune lilac the flow or combination I of ot flows flow now running have been ex exceeded exceeded exceeded ex- ex only once In the known history of or Kilau Kilauea by tho the flows of oC 81 l which were active c ten months traveled more than fort forty miles milea and ami N reached to within one mile mUc of or this tits city lit Volcano observers I expect tho present flow to establish a anew I new duration record Sources of oC the present flow low In December December Decem Decem- I ber bel last were merely a series of or cracks In tho the Kau deserts desert's surface Today loday asa as n a result of or the tho piling up of or continually spouting pouting lava Inva th they nave o built a a. mountain moun moun- tamp tain several s hundred feel e t high So permanently pcr- pcr has this mass maas altred tho contour contour con con- contour tour of or the country that it has been of- of I named ilauna 11 lid 1 or Little Kittle Mountain to distinguish it from Crom It Its i l roOt foot high volcanic Mauna MaunaLoa MaunaLoa Loa or Ir Ih Hip Mountain At irregular Irregular Intervals ala on the summit of Mauna fits Ika are lakes of molten lava J I f fed rd d by active fountains which fling their fiery fler streams over the banks to cascade I down the hm l lc in an angry r rod red cata- cata I racla f The lava 1 flows have C reached a series loc of deep tilt lilt craters ten miles In one ono dl- dl n from th their 11 source For generations generations generations' genera genera- these craters have havo been boen the tho homes I of f the large Urge white or frigate birds who now are arc driven to seek neck other othern n noting nesting places As tho the advancing now flow I successive colonies of these bird th they y fly out over o the hot stream I with piteous cries Constant nt observations are made by tho the I staff starr of or tho the volcano observatory but as asyet I yet it i ta is said to be Impossible to form Corm forman Corman an any conclusion ns os to o when this pr process s of building and earth destroying destro ing I will end Volcano observers say that there Is 19 every indication that as the tho year yea r pro progresses re ses towards fall tall and winter activity it IS I likely to Lo Increase rather than thou d For lor weeks wt tho the lava la column In the crater cra- cra lor ter of or the supply base bao of th the Kau Klu desert flows tOW has hns been sinking until it II is more than feet teet below the tho rim of oC the pit This sinking say My observers Is coming to the end of or Its season and willbe will willbe willbe be followed by a rise of ot tho the lava column which it Is staled slated will Increase the Kau Iau nun s reaching the tho air on the tho crest of oC I Mauna I Scientists express the opinion that the present Kau flows will reach the tho sea lea I I within the next few ew months I |