. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Mauna Loa in Eruption, 133 April 28, i8yg. Rev. A. O. Forbes.—Crater almost extinct. Much more steam than usual on the sulphur flat beyond this house. The two lakes of fire have disappeared in the depths of an immense pit from which only a few puffs of smoke and steam arise. June 24, i8yg. W. H. Lentz.—Both lakes very active, Halemaumau throwing jets of lava up at least fifty feet above the rim of lake so often that the lake looks like a fountain of fire from the verandah. Jtd
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. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Mauna Loa in Eruption, 133 April 28, i8yg. Rev. A. O. Forbes.—Crater almost extinct. Much more steam than usual on the sulphur flat beyond this house. The two lakes of fire have disappeared in the depths of an immense pit from which only a few puffs of smoke and steam arise. June 24, i8yg. W. H. Lentz.—Both lakes very active, Halemaumau throwing jets of lava up at least fifty feet above the rim of lake so often that the lake looks like a fountain of fire from the verandah. Jtdy 2, 18jg. W. Tregloan.—One great lake very active, July 14^ i8yg. W. H. Lentz.—Eight in the morning a large column of black smoke rising from south lake. 8:10 a.m. large flow of lava from the lake extending over at least one-eighth of the entire floor of the crater. 8:30 a.m. sulphur banks on south side of crater on fire; at 10:30 a large portion of the bank of south lake fell in. Jtdy i^^ iSjg, Rev. Chas. M. Hyde.—Was greatly interested in watching last night the glow of the burning lava flow extending from the hill straight across to the sulphur bank; it had the appearance of a burning city.. ?'?'^%5', ..'^>*^^ ~ K : V-^' ^-^•^-/T' t^„. "5 , "*-«.- ^ ^IG. 77. SKETCH OF HAT.KMAUMAU, JANUARY 5, 1880. August ^5, i8yg. G. H. Luce.—One lake or river quite active. Jafiuary ^, 1880, T. J. Kinnear gives a sketch of Halemaumau from the south-southeast. April 8, 1880. A party ascended Mauna Loa and found much snow; could not look down into the extinct crater. May I, 1880. W. H. Lentz.—9:3o p.m. Mokuaweoweo burst out in a large lurid light, with a roar resembling thunder. 10:05 p.m. a second eruption, this time from the crater to the north of Mokuaweoweo, apparently as large as the first. 11 p.m. still another, this time southwest from the first, making in all three active fires on top and slope of Mauna Loa. Kilauea very active, both lakes booming, a th