South Sea Silhouettes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from South Sea Silhouettes The guide took us there again at night. It was a wild ride with the auto light in front, the stars and moon overhead and the red glow of the volcano over all. This was the place to stage Dante 's Inferno I thought as I looked down into the howling, hissing hell of surging lava, and to torment the nations which forget God. We drove back to the hotel in silence. The room was chilly, my teeth were chattering with cold and I won dered why Demosthenes had not made some arrangement with Mephistopheles to have the steam heat piped to the bed rooms. I presume in fifty years the traveler will stop at a new Volcano House with appointments of direct steam heat and sulphur baths, lava beds with Pele hair mattresses, Lucifer sulphur matches, volcano gas light and elevator service, asbestos launch trips across the burning lake and a hot time day and night. That night I pulled the bed over by the window, looked at the red cloud pillar of smoke and fire and fell asleep dreaming that the Judgment Day had come and the wicked had been cast into Halemaumau with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. The poet would never have written Nothing walks with aimless feet, if he had seen a tenderfoot like L or me who went miles along a strange road to find the ladies of our party who had gone out for a short walk. We arrested them in their mad ¿ight and met a convict who wanted me to speak at the jail to a gang of prisoners who were making a new road. I trust they were improving their ways. On our return we passed through a forest of ferns and koa trees. Ferns with us are pretty and small, a home for a bug. Here we were Lilliputians among ferns that grew like trees way overhead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.