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)