1884.] 



On the Volcanic Eruption in Sunda Strait. 



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We arrived at our destination at 6.50 p.m. ; by request of the Resident, 

 put him on hoard a ship which lay in the roads there, and after having 

 done this at 7.30 we got under steam again and made for Kroe 

 (Benkoelen district). 



T. H. Lixdeeman, 

 Master of the " Governor- General Loudon." 



Additional Notes. 



The telegraph buoys in the neighbourhood of Anjer may possibly 

 have been somewhat shifted, but they were found not to have been 

 carried away. 



The town of Tjiringen (Java) has been destroyed. 



At Anjer, besides many natives who are supposed to have perished, 

 the Assistant Resident, the harbour master, and nearly all the other 

 Europeans were destroyed. 



The lighthouses at Java First Point and Flat Cape (Sumatra) are 

 still standing. 



At Padang from the afternoon of the 26th of August for the suc- 

 ceeding twenty-four hours re-echoing sounds made themselves heard 

 like the noise of distant and heavy cannonading. 



The air now and then was red-coloured, while during the afternoun 

 of the 27th thirteen bores or tidal waves r ashed up the harbour, the 

 third and highest of these waves rising to about of a metre 



below the crown of the quay on which the harbour master's office 

 stands. 



The strength of these waves varied for the most part between that 

 of a four-mile and of a six-mile current, but the third wave was 

 estimated to be running at a speed of about twelve miles. 



Beginning at 12.50 p.m. they recurred at intervals till nearly mid- 

 night. The average pause between the flow and the ebb of these 

 waves was about four seconds. 



It will be seen from the foregoing that three lighthouses are known 

 to have been destroyed, viz., the harbour lights at Anjer and Teluk 

 Betong, which were small, and the big lighthouse on Java Fourth 

 Point. 



It is worthy of note also that on the morning of the 27th of August 

 before daybreak the master of the British steam-ship " Devonhurst," 

 which was then off the North Coast of Acheen steering for Olehleh, 

 was woke by a shock which led him to think that the steamer had 

 stranded. 



He rushed on deck to learn what had happened, but found his 

 vessel in deep water in her usual course. 



One or two superstitious ideas which revealed themselves among 

 the native population in consequence of the disaster are not unworthy 



