Photo by Ivieut. J. F. Hahn, U. S. R. S. 

 REFUGEES FROM KADIAK ON BOARD THE "mANNING" 



terrorizing beyond description, and I 

 cannot refrain from paying the highest 

 compHment to many of the inhabitants 

 of Kadiak, who by their courage and 

 forgetfuhiess of self in this time of peril 

 cooperated with us in every way in giv- 

 ing help to the weak and suffering. 



Katmai Volcano is one of the long 

 "belt of active and extinct Alaskan vol- 

 canoes which extend for i,6oo miles 

 from Kenai Peninsula, along the Alas- 

 kan Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. No 

 less than 60 active or recently active vol- 

 canoes are already known, and this num- 

 ber will probably be increased when the 

 territory has been more thoroughly ex- 

 amined. The belt includes Mt. Wran- 

 gell, whose huge dome reaches 14,000 feet 



elevation ; Mt. Shishaldin. a most grace- 

 ful peak, whose outlines rival Fujiyama, 

 and Bogoslof, whose suddenly appear- 

 ing and as suddenly disappearing islands 

 have startled mariners for the past 100 

 years. 



Immediately after the eruption the 

 National Geographic Society, in cooper- 

 ation with the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 sent Mr. George C. Alartin, a geologist 

 of the Survey, to Alaska to make a re- 

 connaissance of Mt. Katmai and neigh- 

 boring volcanoes. Mr. J\Iartin has been 

 in the field of volcanic disturbance 

 throughout the summer. His studies 

 are preliminary to an extended investi- 

 gation of the Alaskan volcanoes, which 

 the National Geographic Society will 

 inaugurate in 1913. 



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