1893 
Mount 
Orizaba 
among their fellows. At one point of the wall it is not very far down 
to the talus and my men said that when they were sulphur-gathering here 
some years ago one of the men was let down by ropes and gathered much 
fine sulphur for them. While they returned to the base of the mountain 
with it he remained to get more, but a fierce gale sprang up and blew 
so hard for three days that no one dared go up the mountain. When the 
gale ended they hurried up and to the border of the crater, calling the 
name of the man below. They were surprised to hear him reply in a weak 
voice and hastening to let down the ropes they drew him up. He was 
very pale and weak but soon recovered,but sulphur gathering at the 
bottom was not carried on after that. 
The walls of the crater appear to be built up almost wholly of 
scoriae and ashes and in this is mixed - where I saw it - with a con¬ 
siderable percent of sulphur in small amorphous masses. The sulphur 
gatherers mined this mixture at a point just outside and below the 
border of the crater on the south side and carried it down to the eave 
where I camped and there refined it in a crude way and took the product 
down to San Andres where they sold it for #12.00 a hundred. In this 
way they made about 75a day. The main summit is at the SW edge of 
the crater and just above where we reached its border. It rises in a 
slight knoll just back from the rim of the crater and is surmounted 
by a large wooden eross which some fanatic has brought up here on his 
back and planted firmly. 
While I lay idly resting on the ashes at the mouth of the crater, 
the wind came tearing and rushing about over the summit now swooping 
down oloud-laden until the whole crater was a boiling mass of tortured 
mist and then swirling up and carrying the clouds away into space. 
It was a fieroe wild soene and up from the depths came the constant 
rattle of dropping stones and in ray ears the mingled sound of ny heavily 
laboring heart that seemed to refuse to rest with the reminder of ny 
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