. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . eat wide pools that w^ere in con-stant rolling motion, bursting frequently upinto big bubbles, as the gases forced their waythrough. There were recurring bursts of noisysteam escapements followed often by the col-lapse of certain portions of the little mount-ains. Moving around the pit farther, each newposition diversified the strange scene. Thelights of the volcano dispelled all other was nothing else in the world to see savethis deep, boiling pit, of bubbling and flowing-lava, the helpless mountains in the m
. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . eat wide pools that w^ere in con-stant rolling motion, bursting frequently upinto big bubbles, as the gases forced their waythrough. There were recurring bursts of noisysteam escapements followed often by the col-lapse of certain portions of the little mount-ains. Moving around the pit farther, each newposition diversified the strange scene. Thelights of the volcano dispelled all other was nothing else in the world to see savethis deep, boiling pit, of bubbling and flowing-lava, the helpless mountains in the midst andthe precipitous walls over which we hung andwatched and watched and watched. There is a fascination about this volcanothat makes people want to go back again andyet again and again. It is the only place that Ihave seen om this trip that I would be morethan delighted to go back and see right awayagain. It grows upon one, I think, because ofthe constant change. Then, too, we know thattomorrow the lava mav be three hundred feet 126 A TRIP TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. PEGGY AND BILL Bill is a native Hawaiian guide to the various wonderpoints in the actively volcanic parts of the island ofHawaii. It is said of him, that in the absence of otherfood he can live for several days on Kilauea lava. Henever lost a chance to help World Press Delegates intheir effort to see and understand. What he doesntknow about the crater and the surroundings hasnt beenfound out yet. Thank you Bill for many courtesies. WITH WORLDS PRESS CONGRESS 127 (loop iiistond of two liinidrcd feet deep and thenext day it may be still dcepei wiiile in a fewmore it may fill the whole pit to the topand he leaking out over the sides, Oidy a fewmoiitlis a,<;() it did all that and incidentally de-stroyed a full half mile of perfectly <;()()d roadthat had been built ri<;-ht u]) to the ed<i,e of thecrater. This is a volcano of many mocxls, hut for-tunately they are not dangerously threateningmoods. Natu
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