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- Photograph by Robert F. Griggs 



TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF A "iIOT ONE" 



Most of the vents were so hot as to be beyond the range of our thermometers; so hot 

 that the steam would char a piece of wood and did not begin to condense for some distance 

 from the orifice. 



Katmai Pass. They seem too big tb be a 

 part of the rest of the world. They do 

 not seem to connect up with the little 

 things which are built into our lives. 



"Outstanding in my memory is the val- 

 ley as I left it. It was a brilliant day, 

 with puffy silver clouds that floated on a 

 sky of deepest blue and sunlight that 

 glinted on opalescent steam jets and 

 sparkled on peaks fresh-capped with 

 snow. 



"As, homeward bound, we skirted Cer- 

 berus, the steamers turned in the dying 

 sunlight to shimmering gold and the 

 snowy crests of distant mountains glinted 

 yellow. I forgot the heavy pack which 

 bowed my shoulders as I glanced back- 

 ward at the growing beauty which filled 

 the valley. Through its giant gateway 

 the 'Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes' 

 sank from sight as we dropped over the 

 pass, and the sky above reddened to a 



crimson halo in the fading rays of the 



sinking sun. 



PERSONNEL OP THE EXPEDITION 



The organization of the expedition, 

 perfecting details of equipment and sup- 

 plies, and seeing that they were on the 

 ground when needed, had consumed a 

 large share of the Director's time and 

 energy for more than six months before 

 the departure from Seattle; but the re- 

 sult justified the labor, for the outfit 

 proved adequate to the strain put upon it 

 and enabled us to carry out the work sub- 

 stantially as planned. 



There were three problems to be met: 

 First, to secure men who could stand up 

 under the excessive physical labor in- 

 volved and continue to do the scientific 

 work contemplated, each in his own line ; 

 second, so to provision and maintain the 

 expedition as to retain its efficiency until 



