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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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s it, for the simplereason that you cant. The crater is a great pit varying from eighthundred to fifteen hundred feet in depth; its floor consists of lava,ashes, and broken rocks, the lava predominating. It is rough and un-even, and in several places there are small craters sending up jets offlame, smoke, and steam, and there are numerous cracks from Avhichsmoke and steam issue constantly. In many places the lava lies ingreat rolls and ridges that are not easy to walk over, and some of THE VOLCAKO OF THE GODDESS PELE. 35 them are quite impassable. Consequently the path winds about a gooddeal, and you may be said to walk two miles to get ahead one. The floor of the crater is hardly the same from week to week, andif I should make a map of it, and describe the place very carefully, youmight not know it if you come here a year from now. In many placesit is so hot that you cannot w^alk on it. Lava cools very slowly, andtlie thicker the bed of it the longer the time it requires for cooling.
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VIEW OF ONE OF THE BURNING LAKES. The Hawaiians say that the volcano is under the control of theGoddess Pele; she is a capricious deity, and you never know for anyffreat length of time beforehand what she will do. Whenever the moodstrikes her she orders an eruption, and straightway the fires are light-ed, the mountain trembles, and the earth all around is violently shaken.Flames burst forth from the crater and shoot high in air, and sometimesthe floor of the whole area is lifted and tossed like the waves of the sea.Kilauea may be said to be constantly active, as the fires never cease; butthere are periods of great activity followed by seasons of comparativequiet. 36 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. Over the floor of the great crater we picked our way for nearlythree miles to the Burning Lakes; and what do you suppose these lakesare ? Their name describes them, as they are literally burning lakes—lakes of lire so hot that if you should be foolish enough to try to bathein them, or s

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