. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . iortunity to walk about in the nearer vi-cinity of the hotel and ex])lore thos? parts. Justa short distance away, ]ierliaps a hundred yards,was an interesting grou]) (^f sul])hur ]:)its. Thesewere deep holes emitting sulphur fumes instreams of hot smoke. One a])])roached themwith considerable timidity for they smelt andlooked so like something so nearlv connectedwith things infernal as to give us pause. We were Avarned not to iuA^ade the shrubgrown |)arts of the ground thereabouts, forthere are hidden creA^asses, in the th
. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . iortunity to walk about in the nearer vi-cinity of the hotel and ex])lore thos? parts. Justa short distance away, ]ierliaps a hundred yards,was an interesting grou]) (^f sul])hur ]:)its. Thesewere deep holes emitting sulphur fumes instreams of hot smoke. One a])])roached themwith considerable timidity for they smelt andlooked so like something so nearlv connectedwith things infernal as to give us pause. We were Avarned not to iuA^ade the shrubgrown |)arts of the ground thereabouts, forthere are hidden creA^asses, in the thick growthsof Amines and small trees into Avhich one mightslip and in doing so he Avould in all ]jrobabilitysuffer seA^ere burns befoi-e he could be rescuedfrom his plight. There is a Avell marked trail from the Xol-cano house doAvn over the two hundred footwall, Avhich leads to the main crater. This trailleads under Ioav growing lehna trees and bymanv sturdv little Aellow-green sandalwood WITH WORLDS IKESS CONGRESS 119. 120 A TRIP TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS trees and directly to the shore of the lavafield. There is a ]3atli, too, across this lavafield leading to the crater. A bridge or twoover large fissures in the lava are all thatis required beyond the natural lava foot-ing. At intervals all over this lava fieldare spots from which hot steam arises and thereis no doubt but that a very few feet down thereis intense heat. The surface though is cool andperfectly safe for navigation, by pedestrians. Only one instance is recorded in moderntimes in which visitors across the lava field tothe inner crater came near to disaster by rea-son of the misbehavior of the volcano. Thisparty had walked across the upper crater overthe lava to the inner crater and charmed bythe strange scenes they had stayed on and onuntil far into the night. Returning by lanternlight across the path which they had traversedin their approach to the crater they suddenlyfound their way blocked by a large crack in th
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