Seven weeks in Hawaii, by an American girl . edge of the outer craterof Kilauca six hundred feet above the great lavaplain. There is a splendid automobile road aroundthis outer crater to the very brink of the inner three oclock, with Jose at the wheel, we startedon the road, which affords a view of most magnifi-cent scenery including many dead volcanoes, the mostpicturesque of these dormant craters being KilaucaIki, or little Kilauca. In this altitude the air is muchcooler with intermittent rain and sunshine. Jose toldus that it rained about eight times each day and eightdays each
Seven weeks in Hawaii, by an American girl . edge of the outer craterof Kilauca six hundred feet above the great lavaplain. There is a splendid automobile road aroundthis outer crater to the very brink of the inner three oclock, with Jose at the wheel, we startedon the road, which affords a view of most magnifi-cent scenery including many dead volcanoes, the mostpicturesque of these dormant craters being KilaucaIki, or little Kilauca. In this altitude the air is muchcooler with intermittent rain and sunshine. Jose toldus that it rained about eight times each day and eightdays each wTek. But one doesnt mind vacillatingweather here, since the rain is scarcely more thanliquid sunshine. We reached the inner crater about four oclock andleaving the machine made our way over the lavaplain. There is more than two thousand acres of thecold lava rock, forming a great level mesa with,nearly perpendicular sides fully six hundred feet deepand about eight miles in circumference. In cooling [91] SEVEN W K !?: K S I \ H A \\ A I I. [92] SEVEN WEEKS IN HAWAII the lava has taken on many pecuhar shapes, some of itresembhng twisted rope while again it forms greatwaves like ocean billows; sometimes there are cone-shaped bubbles rising many feet in height and againthere will be great spaces as smooth as a floor, whichgive out a hollow sound as one treads upon them,and all is of a bronze or dark metal color. The boil-ing pit (called Halc-rnau-inau) is situated in the cen-ter of this plain and encloses a lake of fire a thousandfeet in diameter. Sometimes the fire rises nearly tothe edge of the cold lava, but just now it is about onehundred feet below the brink. As we neared the edge of this pit there was a fear-ful hissing and splashing like the breakers of theocean, and a terrible roaring like heavy thunder beforea coming storm, and then the storm burst forth! Butit was a storm of fire which beat and raged against aburning shore. Great red billows were shot high inthe air, dro
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