- 5 - 
Dec. 
19 - contd. 
a sunset of red clouds and column. 
20 - The front of the lava continues to advance toward the northwest, 
about 3 kilometers distant from the volcano. At the same time the 
lava vents continue their activity. The hornitos that exist on the 
fissure mentioned above make more noise, noises that sound like more 
than five engines. This is the only vent yielding lava and it is not 
unlikely that it will continue for some two months and it frightens the 
people, particularly of Zirosto, a village situated on the left bank of 
the arroyo do?m which the lava is flowing, some 8 kilometers we3t of the 
volcano. The noises of the crater still continue. 
21 - The noises of the crater do not cease, nor has the column of vapor 
changed, always drifting to'ward the north, showering ashes. The region 
is overhung with clouds that the sun does not penetrate. It is a somber, 
dusty day, without the dust-raising winds. Not only are there dust 
clouds when the wind blows, but also when the vapor column is vertical 
and does not rise much. There are moments when the column rises with 
much force and when it rises like cotton, without force. In the night 
an occasional incandescent bomb rises to a height of 500 meters above 
the crater. The vapor column is rather high and is red to a height of 
4,000 meters or more from the reflection of the light of the lava that 
exists toward the southwest and flows to the west of the cone. 
22 - The vapor column drifts toward the north, and the crater continues 
it3 noise. The noise today shows the force with which the vapor leaves 
and how at moments they cease. It is because the vapors choke in the 
throat and calm the noises for two or three seconds, then recovering, 
it forms a silent eruption with a puff of vapor that rises as a white 
pillar. At 10 in the morning the winds begin to blow from the west 
raising clouds of dust. At 12 P. M. , the thin clouds join with the 
