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Yeah, maybe, try this link, talking about the 1838 flow, I believe i have been thinking it was this flow, although this story does not detail it, it's a good read. Especially, the side track, about surfers,,.. (one of my personal favorites.) And there's another somewhere with a full and exciting accounting of a huge eruption, 19th century, somewhere but got to go now.
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/hawaii/la...#spectacle
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I think you are refering to Rev. Titus Coan's book. Every account I've read of Hawaii from the 1800s mentions this missionary. He must have been quite famous back then.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/VI.html
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That link may be titled "Lava Flow of 1838", but it seems to be (I didn't double check) part of Isabella Bird's account of visiting Mauna Loa's active crater in the 1870's.
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It's from "Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands" by Charles Nordhoff
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Thanks for that, Bystander. Another book to read!
The 1838 appears to be a typo. The book lists an illustration titled "LAVA FIELD, HAWAII--FLOW OF 1868". The trip described was in March, 1873.
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well i was here when mauna loa and Kilauea were both flowing at the same time.(first time they both went off together in 120 years!) took out most of ocean view and got within 4 miles of Hilo.. it was amazing to watch, scarey and exciting at the same time. we used to park at the Mountain view post office and watch giant boulders spewing up in the air through a telescope. Mauna Loa is OVERDUE she usually goes about every 20 years and i think that was in either 82 or 84...if you think its not gonna happen again in your lifetime it is wishful thinking... It doesnt always mean people are gonna lose homes, sometimes she just vents some anger and then calms down.
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Nope i hadn't read that one yet, bystander, thanks for the link. And yeah me thinks i have not thoroughly studied the volcanic information, and that flow is older than I had been thinking..
It is though the, qp4 area in this whole valley, quite a disastrous flow from Kilauea..which just missed pahoa, and most of Hawaiian beaches, Kipukas.. But out stretched much of HPP, and the like where is seems it's a large valley dropping down from Kilauea's top.
There's another story, I read a few weeks ago, but the more I think on it it was Manua Loa, and a climb up to it, over 100 years ago.
Thanks for the link, now I know which one you meant near Hawaiian beaches.. Where's that other story about Manua Loa, got to check my computers history.. And last year i read one about a journey through puna and Pahoa, that was pretty good, describing the life and farming well over 100 years ago, i been trying to find, reread.. Got to go work me lot in a few minutes so...maybe tomorrow.
