and Par lout in again became a wild, noisy monster* Huge masses of viscous 
lava wars t kroon high into the air, assuming may vAkr&, usually eloner.ted 
shapes: rods, club or mace shaped projectiles, seas like boaasmngs or T's, 
and a surprising number like birds soaring through the air. On falling upon 
the slop© of the cone those broke into cascading fragments, or rolled like pin- 
wheel® , ce stints fragments into leaping arcs. 
The noise end con fusion of the heavier explosions ware indescribably tre- 
maa&ous, one »us scaoap&aiod by blasts of air. The roer reverberated around 
the surrounding area like the roll of thunder and the fwawlea along the front 
of the old flow coughed puffs of vapor. At 13:10 : M the tremendous roar sud- 
denly ceased* Expectantly w® waited for the crater to continue* There wag 
one last blast, than Quiet* I went to the door o* the cabin but could dist- 
inguish nothing. Everything was uncannily quiet* In a few minutes the dust 
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cleared and a huge notch was apparent in the skyline of the cone* 
Earlier ia the evening I had noticed a slight drop in the Crestline of the 
crater which by midnight had developed almost imperceptibly into a distinct sag 
which, in the obscurity 'of the nt-sht carried no especial aignifieaaia* At this 
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time, however, something quite catastrophic had transpired, hut what, would he 
revealed only by the morning light. 
Shortly after this event, the crater broke into a magnificent display of 
founts in lag incandescent fragaau a, silent except for the patter of bombs upon 
the volcanos* s slopes, and continued, ini ewiittently until morning* 
June 10 
In the morning light, one could see that during the night a huge section 
of the con©, covering one quarter of its perimeter, ted slumped down in terraces 
forming a caldera-like arc in he flank of the previously symmetrical cone* 
The volcano was now very quiet , with only occasional bursts of rook bombs, but 
with its normal plume of billowing smoke, rising to a height of about 3,000 
meters end s curt,® in of ash drifting with the "dr is to the rrest 
