| Show LIVELY VOLCANO ON lv SAWS SAMS DOMAIN but old Gon fleman cannot cann at control raun mauna loa I 1 it Is one of the united states own volcanoes ole an mauna toa loa on yn the ibi island of hawaii that tbt Is on a rampage in the mid alagna loa Is almost ten thousand feet higher than the fr 1 a fe vesuvius and anil bour four thorland tho ivand roand wet t hi higher gb er than the sicilian etna were it not on a small and sparsely settled isac its ts present presen t ift titanic a display di play would have done greater damage and caused more inore serious girias onah n throughout the world than it it has however it sli cliot ct it alumns ot of iam inep nir air inhered Inh eted the harklau Har Olau landscape and with great clouds 0 anke and nd rolled its StI TRIM of favil ami tio rt n Un slopes the alis bitnes y t to Ks s outbreak re bt were liere passe fil gers on ab hiter island i a few islanders it burti barted beneath ltv rlyn of molten fire only one native r it took no toll of human lives mauna ilauna loa has been SA ia active 01 vol ol cano as long as man carf can e rit it in an island group of maffy many iconic mountains it held the of being the highest volcano in the 1 r turf fcc it Is only about five thousand feet less in altitude than the loftiest loft iest volcanic peaks of south america and only onla three thousand feet under the height of famous of mexico mauna loa la Is in about abdat the center of its island within a radius of ten miles are the volcanic mountains of mauna kea and kusan the extinct crater of hua lalla and the almost constantly active and more famous Kilau kilauea ea mauna loas last previous serious outbreak was in 1885 when its flow of lava came within five miles of hilo the most important port of the island five years before was its most destructive tive outburst in the memory of the white inhabitants of the hawaiian islands at that time it was feared that thai hilo was doomed the river of molten lava came within a half mile of the town aud and according to native belief was halted by the intercession of the Ila hawaiian wallan goddess of the subterranean fires in 1010 1016 the government did mauna loa a good turn by making it the principal attraction in a national reservation er and including kilauea and some minor peaks in its realm new york sun |
