110 Eruption of Mauna Loa and Kilauea. 
again at 5p. M. there was a severe and protracted earthquake, 
with considerable swaying to and fro of the earth. Nearly dl 
of a mighty rushing wind, It was impossible to stan 
had to sit on the ground, bracing with hands and feet t 
from being rolled over. While this agitation was at its heigl! 
we saw bursting out, from the top of the bluff, about a a 
and a half north of us, what we supposed to be an immelt 
rocks high in the air, and swallowing everything in its wayj- 
trees, houses, cattle, horses, goats and men, all overwhelmed 
an instant. This devouring current passed over a distance® 
the sea was boiling and foami furiously. The waves covert! 
the shore, and the water was ie for Af leant the eighth of 
ae from the land, scm 
_ With our children and our native servants we wet i ws 
diately to Nahala’s hill, a short distance west of our hot 
From the hill-top we could overlook the country. At Hil, 
a short distance farther west, a small stream of black smoky 
Punaluu a long black column of lava pushed itself slowly int | 
the ocean, and finally disappeared sake the waves, We stoth 
“ery Moment to be swallowed up by the eat im / 
weep utging and rushing directly under our fect. * * *_ 
The villages on the shore were swept away by the great my 
Pig eruption ae rage eran 2 after the a a 
| earth de i i t the ware 
wall wed sak ‘ 3 thirty-one lives, bu . 
r. Richardson returned to Kau on Monday, reaching » 
farm at Kapapala, Tuesday noon ; butas the earthquakes ice 
