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' leb. 6. The colur.m as it rises today, showers ashes and sand toward the north- 
west but less than yesterday. The borabs thrown from the crater, also 
are fewer. The winds that lasted all day provoked strong dust clouds 
but ceased at six. In the night, for a few minutes black tongues 
arose from the crater with bombs like a rain of gold. 
7 At nine in the morning increased noise in the crater which lasted only 
a few minutes and the vapor column is reduced and carries less ash. 
After midday a brief rain of mud towards the north. At 3 PM more 
heavy noises in the crater and the vapor column is yellowish in color. 
At six the winds and the dust clouds cease. At the same hour the lava 
vents at the homitos threw up fountains of lava with the noise it always 
makes when they become active. At the most they would persist for ten 
minutes. The tongues from the crater have no regular interval, some 
rise in rapid succession, others ten to twelve minutes apart. 
8 The explosions are a little more rapid. The thin gray column drifts 
toward the north. The region in that direction is completely cloudy. 
At ten in the morning the winds begin to blow and shakes the dried mud 
from the trees, forming clouds of dust. In the afternoon the crater 
throws up vapors in volutes, almost silently and the column is much 
inclined toward the northeast. In the night the column is vertical, 
black and silent, only now and then more incandescent bombs and scoria 
are seen as they rise from the crater. 
9 The explosions are heard today deep in the crater. At ten in the 
morning, as usual the winds begin to blow in gusts from west to east. 
Between one and two in the afternoon long, deep explosions. The column, 
inclined toward the northeast appears hlBaxx black-like in the shadow 
of' the moon. Prom time to time one distinguishes a few red bombs at 
a great height 
