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island some six miles long and four or five miles broad, situated 
in the straits of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra. On Sunday 
evening this volcano burst into a terrific eruption. The flashes 
from the subterranean fires were seen at Batavia, some eighty 
miles east of Krakatoa, The ashes from the volcano fell at Cher- 
ibon, a town 125 miles east-south-east of Batavia, and about 250 
miles eastward on the north coast of Java, from the outburst, 
while the detonations were heard at Scerakarta, in the central dis- 
trict of Java, a distance of over 300 miles. The town of Anjer 
suffered apparently not only from the volcanic disturbance but 
from a great tidal wave which swept through the straits of Sunda. 
Anjer is, perhaps we ought to say was, a little seaport on the Java 
side of the straits about twenty-five miles east of Krakatoa island. 
This island, estimated to contain 8,000,000,000 cubic yards of 
material, seems to have been shattered and sunk beneath the wa- 
ters, while sixteen volcanic craters have appeared above the sea 
between the site of that island and Sibisi istand, where the sea is 
comparatively shallow, The Scengepan volcano has split into five, 
and it is stated that an extensive plain of “volcanic stone” has 
n formed in the sea near Lampong, Sumatra, probably at a 
part of the coast dotted with small islands. A vessel near the 
site of the eruption had its deck covered with ashes eighteen 
ae deep, and passed masses of pumice stone seven feet in 
epth. 
Sweeping both shores of that passage and reached the coast of 
Java on the morning of the 27th, and, thirty meters high, swept 
the coast between Merak and Tiiringen, totally destroying Anjer, 
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ave, and many lives lost. At Tanjong Priok, fifty-eig 
haa tant from aaka, a sea seven feet and a half higher 
the 
Place, Immediate] i ddenly sank ten feet and a 
half tely afterwards it as suddenly : 
below the high water mark, the effect being most destructive. 
