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Feb. 6 - The column as it rises today, showers ashes and sand toward the 
northwest but less than yesterday. m he bombs thro™ 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, the vapor column is reduced and carries less ash. After mid- 
day a brief rain of mud towards the north. At 3 P. hi. 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 hornitos threw 
up fountains of lava with the noise it always makes when they become active. 
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t 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 vinds 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 black, like in the shadow of the moon. ^rom time to time 
one distinguishes a few red bombs at a great height. 
10 - At two in the afternoon the clouds that form in the crater drift toward 
the northeast, and with the dust raised by the winds they obscure the sun. 
