NEW BOGOSLOF IN 1891 313 



tude was not far from 400 feet that of the highest peak 

 of Old Bogoslof being 370 feet. The islands were still 

 connected, standing on the same platform, and their length 

 collectively was given as a mile and a quarter (fig. I4). 1 



The following year, 1891, it was my good fortune to 

 visit Bogoslof. Prof. T. C. Mendenhall and I were on 

 our way home from the Pribilof Islands, whither we had 

 been sent as Commissioners to represent the interests of 

 the United States in the controversy with Great Britain 

 over the fur-seals. We left the Pribilofs on the evening 

 of August 10, on board the * Albatross,' commanded by 

 Captain Tanner, whom we persuaded to return to Unalaska 

 by way of the volcano. The night was densely foggy, as 

 usual in Bering Sea in summer, and the early morning 

 brought no change. The ship was feeling her way cau- 

 tiously with no land in sight, when suddenly, about seven 

 o'clock, the fog lifted and we saw, directly ahead and 

 hardly a mile away, the bold front of the new volcano. 

 We felt a thrill of excitement as the precipitous cliffs of 

 the northern end broke through the fog, followed by a 

 fierce rush of escaping steam, whose roar, when the engines 

 stopped, drowned all other noises, not excepting the cries 

 of the myriads of seabirds which swarmed about the rocks 

 like bees about a hive. A little farther away and some- 

 what to the left, Old Bogoslof soon came into view. 

 The relations of the two are shown in the plate at the be- 

 ginning of the article, which is from a photograph taken 

 from the deck of the ' Albatross.' 



Before anchoring, Captain Tanner took the precaution 

 to send an officer in a small boat to run a line of sound- 

 ings between the ship and shore. Good anchorage was 

 reported, with nothing less than twenty fathoms. The ship 

 was started ahead slowly, but immediately grounded on a 



l The bearings were recorded as NW by N and SE by S (magnetic). 

 Tanner in Report U. S. Fish Commission for 1890, pt. XVII, p. 243, 1893. 



