For a fortnight a snow-crowned protuberance of the earth in mid-Pacific rumbled and smoked and discharged flaming dragons of molten lava to writhe down and be drowned with great hissing in the sea. By the end of last week, all was quiet again. The dragons lay dead, their heads in the water. Little animalcules—human beings—swarmed about and ventured to walk on the monsters' cooling hides. One man—Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory—climbed high up on the protuberance—Mauna Loa, one of Hawaii's two active volcanoes...
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