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pjo-. 1. — View of the lava-front in tlic sea, being enveloped by white enrdy 

 clouds of saline fnnies, thus representing the Sawaiian stage in the erup- 

 tion of jNIatav in 1905. Photo by Mr. S. Nakasa at 1 p. M., on 

 January 18th, 1914, looking southwards from the top of the Hakama- 

 goshi hill (in the o])posite direction to tJiat in PI. VI. Fig. 2). See 

 pages 78, 115, 116. 



Fig. 2. — Snowing of the thiek ash-dust in Kagoshinia on January 17th, 1914. 

 A few people were walking in rain-coats ^vith umbrellas, and a dozen 

 soldiers were patrolling the streets in the same fashion to safeguard against 

 fire and theft, as most of the houses were left vacant by the inmates 

 who fled to the country. Photo bought in Kagoshinia. See pages 79, 80. 



Fig. 3. — View of eastern vent in eruption, a gale of dust stream ^vas 

 coursing eastwards toward the writer who felt the air quite warm. A 

 series of white saline fumes was risins: from black heads of the submarine 

 lava which was flowing toward the opposite shore of the strait of Séto. 

 Photo by the writer on January 18th, 1914, at Funioto in Prov. Osumi. 

 See page 85. 



