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approaching from opposite directions. Captain Anderson 

 first sighted it at daybreak, September 27, and at 8:30 

 passed it within three cables' lengths, heaving the lead as 

 fast as practicable with twenty fathoms of line and finding 

 no bottom, although the water was discolored and of a red- 

 dish hue. His vessel approached from the east, stood up to 

 the northwest, tacked ship, and passed to the westward 



FIG. 15. NEW BOGOSLOF IN FALL OF 1883. DRAWN BY PROF. GEORGE 

 DAVIDSON FROM DESCRIPTIONS BY CAPTAINS ANDERSON AND HAGUE. 



so that all sides of the volcano were seen. The captains 

 agreed that the new island was larger than the old; that 

 it was about half a mile northwest from it; that it rose 

 precipitously with a rough ' ogee ' curve, and that the out- 

 line of the east side was broken on the shoulder and at 

 the base by masses of rock. Its sides were said to be 

 very steep. Great steam jets poured out around the base. 



