. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 124 Ktlauea and Mauna Loa, August 2g, 18^4, F. A. Schaefer.—Although at my previous visits ('61, '64, '66, '67, '74) I have seen more lakes in Kilauea in action, I have never seen any one lake in a greater state of com- motion than this time. We found the south lake divided into two lakes of similar size by a bank about forty feet high, and the approach to either of them rather more difficult than in years past, on account of recent overflows of lava. Approaching the left-hand
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. 124 Ktlauea and Mauna Loa, August 2g, 18^4, F. A. Schaefer.—Although at my previous visits ('61, '64, '66, '67, '74) I have seen more lakes in Kilauea in action, I have never seen any one lake in a greater state of com- motion than this time. We found the south lake divided into two lakes of similar size by a bank about forty feet high, and the approach to either of them rather more difficult than in years past, on account of recent overflows of lava. Approaching the left-hand lake we had to pass through a great deal of sulphuric smoke which necessarily shortened our stay there, and prevented us from going as near to the brink of the lake as we would have wished, but still allowed an impressive glance at the surging and spouting liquid fire. The right-hand lake seen from a bank eighty feet high pre- ,^0mmt^i. • UJj.^ 0£fU 0^ar^ r.^^/^^.A -i 'A /J^^ A* f. ^IG. 74. SKETCH Oi? ACTION IN DECEMBER 8, 1874. sented a magnificent spectacle. The bed of the lake was in constant commotion. Along its banks the waves of liquid fire into spray like the waves of the ocean on the rockbound coast, and at times the molten lava was thrown high into the air Returning we visited several openings which afforded us a view into a living stream of lava flowing from the south lake in an easterly direction, with a rapidity difficult to estimate. A river of liquid fire rushing along with extreme rapidity and with the characteristics of a mountain stream losing itself in the lower bed of the crater Thermometer 54''-68°; once it went to 51°. September g, 18J4, B. F. Dillingham.—Have to report the crater of Mokuaweoweo in the same condition topographically as reported by last party and illustrated by J, M. I^ydgate The burning lake itself was less active than reported by the last party, still the action was very satisfac- tory at both ends of the
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