| Show 0 WW o oi oA L N NN 1 1 1 N r i A 0 A 1 t r Lw i r J z 1 X t t w dl t f loft w wt t s r f 1 1 1 1 Y Y 1 J JI f m a f 1 i iY Y X y X A I t I f f ff Y y ya r S F 1 a 1 5 SIt It 1 4 e o i t 4 r y a 4 h i I r k w i I Ii A I 1 i t THE GREAT AT KILAUEA LAVA CATARACT OF 1868 1808 I Brought to Salt by b n 11 Morris Young Who Was V i Twice a s Missionary on the tho Islands lit n tilt lIb earthquake pooled period of ot 1868 1863 In Inthe the Hawaiian Islands there was one of at tho the mightiest lava liwa lows flows on record A p photograph r t of ot It was secured by b B Ii Morris 1 1 who twice served 1 as u tut missionary on tho Islands and from Cram It the tho above aboe halftone tono Is in reproduced showing a n veritable river of fire are tu tumultuously tumultuous tumultuously precipitating Itself tt elt over n a great precipice on iRe ts way to the theO oven ocean O Says Sa s an eyewitness of ot it ft From 1 this this great grat fountain to the sea sen Mowed lowed a rapid stream of red lava rolling roiling rushing and tumbling like a swollen river and anti bearing along In ht Its III current large larce rocks rock that almost made the lava lavt foam as all It dashed down tho the Pt and through tho the valley Into the sea surging and waring through throughout out Its t is length like a cataract c cn with a power n vor and fury perfectly Indescribable able able It was nothing g else t aIta A river of ot lire fire from to feet wide und 20 0 feet teet deep with n a speed B eel varying from ta 10 to 25 26 miles lle an hour hour As u huge lunge boulder floated coated down we Imagined what If It It ft were the Ironclad Ironclad Stone Stonewall Stonewall wall which had Just left our harbor I would she e have hatte floated on to tho the sea I unscathed or turned Into molten lava Inu InuI I and vanished led from sight eight Night Ight soon toon came cam and with It ft tb the scene became n a fold more mori m u beautiful the crimson of the tho fountain and the river doubly rich and brilliant the th lurid glare of ot tho urn dense demise clouds o a t smoke that overhung us tie and th the roar oar Ing of at the crater and the cataract were Iere tearfully fearfully grand frand and 1 J It was like a 0 conflagration ro n of at London LoMon or of Paris a as tho the whole scene extended extend over oer a u distance of 10 miles Add to this the Hashes flashes of ot lightning and th the sharp quick claps of ot thunder and th the ther reader r ader can Imagine I that a scene inn are U before us that well repaid us for tor our opportune visit |
