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Where are these hiding?! 1868

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Picture of Lava.–In the morning of this past Wednesday (4/15/1868), hung outside Whitney’s Book Shop was a drawing of a river of lava going out into the sea of Hioipakini at Kau, drawn by H. M. Whitney at Kau, and sent here to Honolulu. A copy of that picture was drawn by Iosepa Nawahi (Kahooluhi) [Joseph Nawahi], and hung on the door of our workplace to show to the public. There have been many hundreds of men, women, and children who have come in droves to see it from that day. The crowd was filled with dread and fear at this dreadful representation of the works of Almighty God. Seen are four volcanic mounds ablaze upland, close to Captain Brown’s house at Kahuku.

Kuokoa, 4/18/1868, p. 3)

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke VII, Helu 16, Aoao 3. Aperila 18, 1868.

Discovery of a new water source at Puuopapai, Kauai, 1856.

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A NEW WATER SOURCE.

O Ka Hae Hawaii, Aloha oe:

A new water source was found at Puuopapai, to the south of Hanapepe. It is a new water source found only now, not before. In earlier days there was no water there. This is the nature of that water: It is water that flows within earth and stone; some people have divided it into a place where people drink, and where animals drink. There are many who are going there to sightsee, from Koloa, Lihue, and all the way to Puna, to go and see this new water source. These past three months, there were a lot of sunny days without rain, and it was during these months that the water appeared. From the beginning to the year 1855, water was not seen there.

Hanapepe, Kauai, Mar. 9, 1855. KEA.

(Hae Hawaii, 4/16/1856, p. 25)

Ka Hae Hawaii, Buke I, Helu 7, Aoao 25. Aperila 16, 1856