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Visitors have found their way to Kilauea for well over a century now. Early travelers often dipped postcards into the hot lava and singed the edges as a souvenir of their volcano visit. In 1874, Isabella Bird - the famed traveler and author of "Six Months in the Sandwich Islands" visited Kilauea and wrote in spectacular detail: |
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"Suddenly, just above, and in front of us, gory drops were tossed in air, and springing forwards we stood on the brink of Hale-mau-mau, which was about 35 feet below us. I think we all screamed, I know we all wept, but we were speechless, for a new glory and terror had been added to the earth." |
