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ART. 3. — B. K0T5 



Map) and thon 

 at (?) Minami- 

 daira. Soon the 

 island was en- 

 veloped in dark 

 smoke periodi- 

 cally illuminated 

 with flashes of 

 lightning and 

 projectiles of 

 red-hot stones 

 like meteors 

 witli tails. 



This threa- 

 tening state last- 

 ed for five days, 

 when the inten- 

 sity abated somewhat, though for a month every 3 or 4 hours, or 

 every 2 or 3 days, it burnt and roared. The wdiole aspect of the 

 mountain island was then entirely changed, elevations were engulfed 

 and hollows filled up w^ith ash (?) and later by lava-flows. 



On this calamitous occasion 153 people were killed and man\' 

 more w^ounded ; 1,576 horses and 135 oxen w^ere also killed, 

 besides other domestic cattle and fowls. Two thousand islanders 

 fled to Kagoshima, and on the other liand the citizens were 

 thrcnvn into confusion by an unfounded rumor of ' tsunami ' or 

 encroaching boisterous sea waves. Heavy damage resulted in 

 Yuno and Arimura on the south, Kurokami on the east, and 

 Komcn on the northeast coast. Headlands of lac a wttc formed 

 in Komen and Kurokami (see Text-fig. 11), both bearing the 



Fig. IQ .-. 

 a — Lava ends of historic lavas prior to 177!J. 

 V — Vents of the An-éi eruption, 1779. 

 Sketch-map by S. Izichi at the time of the An-ei activity. 



