242 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
This report gives an accurate statement of the steaming qualities of 
the coal received from the mine compared with the Wellington coal, 
and, considering that it was taken from a vein near the surface, the 
extra amount required to furnish the same quantity of steam will not 
seem excessive. It is shown that the coal possesses merits, and it will 
doubtless improve with the development of the deeper veins. 
Work was resumed on the survey as soon as the vessel came to 
anchor, and, although the weather was unfavorable, many soundings 
were taken, besides some further triangulation. Reindeer and bears 
were plentiful in the mountains surrounding Herendeen Bay, and several 
were brought in by the naturalists and officers. We finished coaling 
on the evening of the 27th, having taken aboard 128 tons, 25 tons being 
in bags on deck, 
Boisterous winds with driving mist and fog detained us during the 
28th, but we were under way early the following morning and steamed 
out by the rough chart of our recent survey, which was found quite 
accurate and sufficient for the present purposes of navigation, except 
at the entrance to Port Moller, where more soundings are required to 
properly develop the channel and the region between Entrance Point — 
and Walrus Island. 
Strong southerly winds and heavy head seas were encountered, 
which, in addition to a dense fog, made our progress exceedingly slow 
and uncomfortable, but we finally arrived safely in [liuliuk, Unalaska, 
at 10:50 a. m., July 31. Arrangements were made for a supply of coal 
on our return, and at daylight August 2 we proceeded to sea. A line 
of soundings was commenced off Cape Cheerful and carried to Bogos- 
lof, an active voleano in 53° 55’ N. and 168° 1/ W. The maximum depth 
was 885 fathoms about midway between Cape Makushin and Bogoslof. 
Bogoslof Island and Voleano.—The first authentic account of this 
interesting locality is from Capt. Cook, who passed between the posi- 
tion of Bogoslof and Umnak in 1778, and discovering a rock which at 
a distance resembled a ship under sail, he named it Sail Rock. It must 
have been the only conspicuous object near by at the time or he would 
have mentioned that fact. Old Bogoslof, as it is now called, was thrown 
up about 400 yards from Sail Rock in 1796, after an earthquake, and, 
according to Baranoft’s report, remained active until 1815 at least; I 
do not know how much longer. It must have undergone many remark- 
able changes during its period of activity. Capt. Wassilieff reported 
that at one time it attained an altitude of 2,240 feet, whereas it is now 
but 370 feet in height and greatly diminished in bulk. New Bogoslof 
is located on. the opposite extremity of the same platform, the total 
length of the island, including the old and new cones, being about 14 
miles NW. by N. and SE. by S. (magnetic), and a little less than a mile 
in width. 
The natives of southern Unalaska reported that Bogoslof was smok- 
ing in 1882, but there is no report from the island until September 27, 
