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displeased at so wanton an use being made of our fire- 

 arms, and took measures to prevent it for the future. 

 Wind southerly, with heavy showers of rain. 



During the night, and also all the 11th, the vol- 

 cano was exceedingly troublesome, and made a ter- 

 rible noise, throwing up prodigious columns of fire 

 and smoke at each explosion, which happened every 

 three or four minutes ; and, at one time, great stones 

 were seen high in the air. Besides the necessary 

 work of wooding and watering, we struck the main- 

 top-mast to fix new trestle-trees and back-stays. Mr. 

 Forster and his party went up the hill on the west 

 side of the harbour, where he found three places 

 from whence smoke of a sulphureous smell issued, 

 through cracks or fissures in the earth. The ground 

 about these was exceedingly hot, and parched or 

 burnt, and they seemed to keep pace with the 

 volcano, for at every explosion of the latter, the quan- 

 tity of smoke or steam in these was greatly increased, 

 and forced out so as to rise in small columns, which 

 we saw from the ship, and had taken for common 

 fires made by the natives. At the foot of this hill 

 are the hot springs before mentioned. 



In the afternoon Mr. Forster, having begun his 

 botanical researches on the other side of the harbour, 

 fell in with our friend Paowang's house, where he 

 saw most of the articles I had given him, hanging 

 on the adjoining trees and bushes, as if they were 

 not worthy of being under his roofl 



On the 12th, some of the officers accompanied 

 Mr. Forster to the hot places he had been at the pre- 

 ceding day. A thermometer placed in a little hole 

 made in one of them, rose from 80, at which it stood 

 in the open air, to 170. Several other parts of the 

 hill emitted smoke or steam all the day, and the 

 volcano was unusually furious, insomuch, that the 

 air was loaded with its ashes. The rain which fell at 

 this time, was a compound of water, sand, and earth ; 

 so that it properly might be called showers of 



