HE largest volcano in the world is found in the Sandwich Islands.
This is called ““Mauna Loa.” It rises nearly fourteen thousand
feet above the level of the sea and looks like an immense dome.

The crater of this volcano is two and one-half miles in
length by one in width. This can be considered as divided up
into a number of smaller craters. he most noted one is
called “Kilanea” and is situated on a plain far above the sea

level. This is nine miles in circumference and fourteen hundred feet deep.

The lava at
the outer edge is
cooled to a dis-
tance of | several
hundred feet. Dur-
ing the day the}
bottom of this cra-
ter looks like a
heap of smoulder-
ing ruins, but at
night it shows two
immense pools of
a cherry-red liquid
which illuminates
the entire bottom
and flows in all di-
rections like water.
There are also a
large number of small craters throwing out stones, ashes, lava, smoke and
flame. We visited this at night and were almost blinded and. suffocated by
sulphurous steam which came from the many craters. Our picture is a striking
one of this great crater, though nothing can properly represent a boiling
spouting lake of fire.

Several times while trying to sketch this crater our artist was compelled
to move on account of an eruptionnear him. In one instance, hearing a noise
close at hand, he hastily ran and got out of the way just in time to see a par-
ticular rock upon which he had been standing plunge into the fiery mass
below.