THE GREAT ERUPTION OF SAKURA-JIMA IN ]9L4. 



83 



fences, During the shower of lapilli some poople were wounded 

 Mud two were hurled (dire under the pumice, 8-9 feet thick, in 

 their flight to a neighbouring height. There were no roads ; riee- 

 paddies, rivulets and houses, all were leveled to a i)lain ; but the 

 walk on it 

 was not trou- 

 blesome, as 

 the pumice 

 bed w^as co- 

 vered w ith fine 

 ashes which 

 smoothed the 

 way and made 

 the ground 

 stable. Some 

 people were 

 digging pas- 

 sages to their 



buried houses to get into them. As the weather had been hitherto 

 fine'^ there was no great sufiering ; but from February 8th there 

 were frequently storms, and the inrushes of floating 

 pumice and ash-mud did more harm to the inhabitants 

 than the dry subaërial ejectamenta, especially along the coast op- 

 posite to southeastern Sakura-jima {see also p. 40). 



The Nabé-yama ventholes, 5 in number (PI. XL Figs. 1 

 and 2, Text-fig. 19), were and are still located on the fissure-line 

 running E.S.E. for a distance of 2.2 hn. from the steep slope 

 of Mt. Sakura-jima to the foot along the southern shoulder of the 

 pumice-built parasitic homate of Nabé-yama. .The fissure is ap- 



Fig. 22. — Ash-buried village of Fvimoto. 

 (Photo by S. Nakasii.) 



Pl'ÎVnCE-ASH 



Flood 

 (Yavuishivo 



1) \';tl(' footnote, p. 80(1). 



