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day and all the evening. Monday morning' when I came on deck 

 ray month and nose were filled with some stuff that fell heavy 

 and thick aboiit us. The air itself was full of sulphur smoke, 

 which even permeated the cabin, and the decks were covered 

 Avith fully 2 inches of black sand. Nothing could be cooked be- 

 cause of it. It penetrated everywhere. At noon when tlie stuff 

 was getting lighter we could see the cannery. We went ashore 

 and found everything one color, black. The schooner Nellie, of 

 Sand Point, coming from Vessnessensky, reported that the store- 

 keeper, N. Zwain, had seen on the day of the eruption, rocks on 

 fire thrown in the air at an angle of 20° in the direction of Port- 

 age Bay, which seemed to be a mass of fire and flames. The 

 Alaska Commercial Company's steamer St. Paul experienced the 

 same shower of sand 250 miles off shore that day. On Monday 

 afternoon, some stuff, different from what fell on us the night 

 before, came down from the direction of the mountain known as 

 Black Peak, between Chignik and Oonangashik. It appeared 

 more like burned paper. The following day, Tuesday, another 

 light shower fell the whole afternoon. Chignik bay itself had a 

 muddy appearance and all the high grass w^as knocked down by 

 the heavy sand. It will take some time for the glaciers to get 

 their natural color. The fall was heaviest on Monday morning 

 between 2 and 4 o'clock." 



1892. August 30; Tybo (Nev.), 9 p. m. 



" Distinct."— C. W. F. 



1892. August 31; Independence. 



Mr. C. Mulholland reports a shock occurring at 5 p. m. It was 

 quite sharp and was preceded, three or four seconds, by a sound 

 like distant thunder. There ai)peared to be three or four sharp 

 vibrations coming from the south. No reports of damage. 



1892. Ansnst 28. 



The origin of the immense cloud of volcanic dust which was 

 reported by Capt. Erskine as having passed over the steamer St. 

 Paul on her last trip up to Oonalaska, and which he estimated to 

 be more than 100 miles in extent, has been definitely ascertained. 

 The sea otter hunting schooner Everett Hayes arrived here last 

 week from the Shumagin Islands, and from her owner, I. J. 

 Applegate, the following particulars of the eruption of a new 

 volcano have been obtained: 



On Sunday, August 28, the Hayes put into Ivanef Bay at the ex- 

 treme western end of the Alaskan peninsula, and anchored. The 

 position of the schooner was in lat. 55° 52' north and long. 159° 

 20' west. The weather at the time of anchoring was calm and 

 clear. About midnight of the 27th the crew of the schooner were 

 aroused by a subdiied rumbling noise, which sounded not unlike 

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