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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Frank I. Jones 

 MOUNT MARTIN FROM BAKED MOUNTAIN CAMP 



The crater is thirteen miles distant in a straight line, 

 five miles away, our path led entirely over ice and snow, 

 extremely hazardous (see text, page 267). 



After leaving the first slopes, 

 Some of the glacier-work was 



yond, that hid the valley itself. Nothing 

 was to be seen. Had it, too, succumbed? 

 But, as I looked, a puff of vapor rose up 

 and joined the clouds above. No, the 

 Smokes were still there. 



Saying nothing to Kolb, for I wanted 

 him to be taken by surprise, I pressed 

 on. But the puffs kept coming, another 

 and another, so that it was not long until 

 he saw one for himself. When finally 

 we surmounted the rise and looked over, 

 there they lay, spread through the whole 

 valley, exactly as when we first beheld 

 them. No snow there ! (see pp. 237, 272). 



THE TEN THOUSAND SMOKES IN I919 



What a contrast to the snow-covered 

 valley leading up to the pass ! Except 

 for a few patches in cool spots around 

 the margin, it was as clear and bare as 

 in midsummer. 



The general appearance of the valley 

 was the same as it had been in 191 6, 

 when first discovered, but after we had 

 had time to examine it somewhat in de- 

 tail, we could observe some slight indica- 

 tions of a slackening of activity around 

 the edges. The little fumaroles between 

 Cerberus and Mageik, at the head of the 

 valley, of which there were about a hun- 

 dred in 1 91 6, 191 7, and 191 8, were re- 

 duced to two or three in 1919. 



At the foot of the valley a large num- 

 ber of springs of boiling water had 

 started up in areas where there had been 

 nothing but steam previously. The tem- 

 peratures of some of the fumaroles in 

 the same area were markedly lower than 

 the year before (see page 235). 



Falling Mountain, likewise, though 

 active enough to satisfy the newcomers, 

 did not shoot forth its avalanches with 



