Show AN interesting LETTER brother john fisher of bountiful favors us with a letter from his son irvin P F who is on a mission to the sandwich islands it is dated pahala cahala JEa hawaii january 80 30 and is quite interesting te throughout the natives are quite friendly without exception and treat the elders eldera with marked respect and assist them in every reasonable way quite a graphic and decidedly readable account of a VIOR visit by the writer to the famous volcano kilauea is given which he visited on mule back reg W give ive a portion of his bis description of what he saw it was the hottest place I 1 ov oversaw over eisaw saw aud and a much hotter place than I 1 care to go to at present the pit or jake as it is called is not very large about 15 rods wide by 30 rods long as near as I 1 could judge and surrounded on three sides by cliffle of lava rock from 20 to 50 feet in height but ou oa the side that we viewed it from the rocky barrier has lately been torn away by an overflow of fresh lava leaving this side only 8 or ten feet above the surging ng red waves of melted rock it was a fearfully grand sight might which I 1 cannot de scribe we reached it before 7 and remained gazing in wonder an aej amazement till 9 there is a constant movement of its fiery bubbling surface from the east end to the west wat and here it lashes furiously against its red hot rocky barrier eating into the solid rock like a torrent of water into a soft bank of earth so bo that at this end the west the surrounding oliff cliff was undermined for about ten feet at the surface of the lake and I 1 know not how bow much further deeper down lumps and strips of red lava like thin dough or hot molasses can dy were continually being hurled burled high in the air much of it dr dropping upping on the surrounding banks thus thu 8 constantly repairing them and building them anew rr for these we had to watch out while close to the pit to see that they did not dot drop onus on us unawares A good breeze was blowing from us across the lake thus keeping the heat back a good deal and allowing Us to approach at times with within in eight or ten feet of the edge though most moat of the time we were glad to k keep back several rods we gathered lots of oP poles oles hair 11 some of which I 1 will bring home when I 1 return we also dropped some dimes in some of the red hot lumps of lava that were thrown at our feet aud and will bring them home if we can keep thew them but they are very crisp and brittle the rock seems to have all substance burned out of it till it is like dough that U bat has been burned crisp and black the new lava thrown out less than a month ago over which we walked bilked for several hundred yards would crack brack and crush up like crusted snow on a a frosty night and al all of this is as black as the worst bu burned n ed dough you ever eur saw the old I 1 lake e part of the floor of which we walked over is an immense affair it is about three or four miles wide and between seven eleven and eight miles in length and is surrounded by immense cliffs of rock several hundred feet in height and the present lake is situated nearly at its centre this immense old floor looks like a rough stormy seii sea suddenly turned into Lol solid id black rock and is itself a grand and fearful sight eight for it to is full of rends rens and fissures through which steam and sulphur fumes are constantly escaping brother fisher and were well and feeling well adapting themselves easily to the new conditions in which they are placed |