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with him; same as she used to do with
the old man. The two let in all sorts
Of low people. niggers and ALL and the
Black Smoke isn't as good as 1t used tc
be. I've found burnt bran in my pipe
over and over again. The old man would
have died If that had happened in his
time. Besides. the room is never
cleaned. and all the mats are torn and
cut at the edges. The coffin Is gone
gone to China again-with the old man
and two ounces of smoke inside it, in
case he should want 'em on the way.
The Joss doesn't get SO many sticks
burnt under his nose as he used to:
that's sign OF ill-luck. as sure as
death. He's all brown. too, and no one
ever attends to him. That's the Mem
sahib's work, I know; because, when
Tsin-ling tried to burn gilt paper before
him, she said 1t was a waste Of money,
and, If he kept stick burning very
slowly, the joss wouldn't know the diff
ference. So now we've got the sticks
mixed with lot Of glue, and they take
half an hour longer to burn and smell
sticky. Let alone the smell of the room
by itself. No business can get on IL they
try that sort of thing. The Joss doesn't
like it. can see that. Late at night,
sometimes, he turns. all sorts of queer
colors-blue and green and robust as
he used to do when old Fung- Tchine
was alive; and he .olls his eyes and
stamps his feet like devil.
I don't know why I don't leave the
place and smoke quietly in little room
of my own in the bazaar. Most like,
Tsinling would kill me II went away
he draws my sixty rupees now-and be-
sides, it's so much trouble, and I've
grown to be very fond Of the Gate. It's
not much to look at. Not what 1t was
in the old mans time, but I couldn't
leave 1t. I've seen so many come in and
out. And I've seen so many die here on
the mats that should be afraid Of dy-
ing in the open now. I've seen some
things that people would call strange
enough; but nothing is strange when
you're on the Black Smoke, except the
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Black Smoke. And if it was. !, wouldn't

Black Smoke And IL it was. 1t wouldn't
matter.
Fung Tching used to be very particu-
lar about his people. and never got In
any one who'd give trouble by dying
messy and such. But the nephew isr'r
half so careful. He tells everywhere
that he keeps "irst-chop" house.
Never tries to get men in quietly and
make them comfortable like Fung-
Tching did That's why the Gate is get
ting a little bit more known than 1t
used to be. Among the niggers, Ct
course. The nephew daren't ge. a white.
or. for matter of that, mixed skin
into the place. He has to keep US three
of course-me and the Memsahib and the
other Eurasian. We're fixtures. But
he wouldn't give US credit for pipe
ful-not for anything.
One of these days, hope, I shall die
in the Gate. The Persian and the Ma
dras man are terribly shaky now.
They've got boy to light their pipes
for them. / always do that myself. Most
like. shall see them carried out before
me. ! don't think / shall ever outJiye
the Memsahib or Tsin-ling. Women last
longer than men at the Black Smoke.
and Tsin-ling has deal Of the old mans
blood in him. though he does smoke
cheap STUFF. The bazaar-woman knew
when she was going two days before her
time; and she died on clean mat with
nicely wadded pillow. and the old man
hung up her pipe just above the Joss.
He was always fond of her. 1 fancy. But
he took her bangles just the same.
should like to die like the bazaar
woman-on a clean. cool mat win a
pipe OF geod stuff stiff between my lips.
When feel I'm going. shall ask Tsin-
ling for them. and he can e-aw my sixty
rupees month. fresh and fresh, as long
as he pleases. Then I shall lie back,
quiet and comfortable. and watch the
black and red dragons have their last
big fight together; and then. -
Well. it doesn't matter Nothing mat
ters much to me-only wish Tsin-ling
wouldn't put bran into the Black Smoke.
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He galloped off. with half the club
wardrobe on his back. and an utter
strangers pony under him, to the house
of old Youghal. The general, arrayed
him. What the general had said Strick-
land never knew, but Youghal received
Strickland with moderate civility, and
Mrs. Youghal, touched by the devotion
of the transformed Dulloo, was almost
kind. The general beamed and chuckled,
and Miss Youghal came in. and, almost
before old Youghal knew where he was,
the parental consent had been wrenched
out. and Strickland had departed with
Miss Youghal to the telegraph office to
wire for his kit. The final embarrass-
ment WAS when an utter stranger at
tackled him on the Maill and asked for
the stolen pony.
So. in the end, Strickland and Miss
Youghal were married. on the strict un-
derstanding that Srickland should drop
his old way and stick to departmental
routine. which pays best and leads to
Simla. Strickland was far too fond of
his wife, just then. to break his word,
but 1t was a sore trial to him; for the
streets and the bazars, and the sounds
of them were full OF meaning to Strick-
land. and these called to him to come
back and take UP his wanderings and
his discoveries. Some day. l will tell
you how he broke his promise to help a
friend. That was long since, and he
has. by this time. been nearly spoilt for
what he would call shikar. He is for
getting the slang. and the drift of the
under-current. which. II a man would
master, he must always continue to
learn.
But he fills in his departmental re-
turns beautifully.
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| or Afghans or something. There are
not more than five Of us living now. bu,
we come regular. I don't know what
happened to the Baboos; but the bazaar
woman she died after six months OF the
Gate, and l think Fung gTching took her
bangles and nosing for himself. But
I'm not certain. The Englishman. he
drank as we'll as smoked. and he dropped
off. One of the Persians got killed in
row at night by the big we'll near the
mosque a long time ago, and the police
shut up the we'll because they said 1t
was full of foul air. They found him
dead at the bottom Of it. So, you see,
there is only one, the Chinaman, the
half-caste woman that we call the Mem
sahib (she used to live with Fung-
Tching), the other Eurasian, and one Of
the Persians.
The Memsahib looks very old now.
think she was a young woman when the
Gate was opened; but we are all old for
the matter of that. Hundreds and hun
dreds Of years old. It is very hard to
keep count OF time IN the CIale, ana De-
sides. time doesn't matter to me. draw
my sixty rupees fresh and fresh every
month. A very. very long while ago,
when 1 used to be getting $50 rupees a
month. and pickings. on big timber
contract at Calcutta, had wife of
sorts. But she's dead now. People said
that killed her by taking to the Black
Smoke. Perhaps did, but it's SO long
since that it doesn't matter. Sometimes
when first came to the Gate, used to
feel sorry for it; but that's all over and
done with long ago, and draw my sixty
rupees fresh and fresh every month, and
am quite happy. Not drunk happy. you
know, but always quiet and soothed and
contented. :
How did take to It? 1t began at
Calcutta. used to try it in my own
house. just to see what it was like. I
never went very far, but think my
wife must have died then. Anyhow. 1
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This is no work OF mine. Ny friend,
Gabral Misquitta, the half-caste,

"HIS is no work OF mine. Ny friend,
Gabral Misquitta, the halfcaste
i spoke 1t ali. between moonset
and morning. six weeks before he
died: and took 1t down from his mouth
rs he answered my questions. so:
1t lies between the Copersmith' b
Gully and the pipestem sellers quarter,
within an hundred yards, too, as the
crow flies, of the Mosque of Wazir
Khan. 1 don't mind telling any one
this much, but defy him to find the
Gate, however well he may think he
knows the City. You might even go
through the very gully it stands in a
hundred times. and be none the wiser.
We used to call the gully. "the Gully
of the Black Smoke" but its native
name is altogether different. of course.
A loaded donkey couldn't pass between
the walls: and, at one point, just be-
fore you reach the Gate. bulged house
front makes people go along all side
ways.
It isn't really a gate. though. It's a
house. Old Fung- Tching had it first FIVE
years ago. He was a bootmaker in CAL
cutta. They say that he murdered his
wife there when he was drunk. That was
why he dropped bazaar rum and took to
the Black Smoke instead. Later on, he
came up north and opened the Gate as a
house where you could get your smoke
in peace and quiet. Mind you, it was a
pukha. respectable opium house, and
not one of those sitting. sweltering
chandoo- -khanas, that you find all over
the city. No; the old man knew his
business thoroughly. and he was most
clean for a Chinaman. He was one
eyed little chap, not much more than
i've feet high, and both his middle fing-
ers were gone. All the same, he was
the handiest man at rolling black pills
/ have ever seen. Never seemed to be
touched by the smoke; either; and what
he took day and night. night and day.
was a caution. I've been at 1t five years,
and can do my fair share OF the Smoke
with any one; but was child to Fung
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the Kasi do?
-Nohamnedan Proverb.
~ ONE people say that there is no
romance in India. Those people
~ are wrong. Our lives hold quite
as much romance as is good for
us. Sometimes more.
Strickland was in the police, and peo-
ple did not understand him; so they
said he was a doubtful sort Of man
and passed by on the other side. Strick-
land had himself to thank for this. He
held the extraordinary theory that po-
nceman in India should try to know as
much about the natives as the natives
themselves. Now, in the whole OF up
per India. there is ONLY one man who can
mass for Hindu or Mahommedan, cha
mar, or faquir. as he pleases. He Is
feared and respected by the natives from
the Ghor Kathri to the Jamma Musjid:
and he is supposed to nave the gift OF
invisibility and executive control over
many devils. He has never got Simla for
his charge. and his name is almost un-
known to Englishmen.
Strickland was foolish enough to take
that man for his model, and, following
out his absurd theory, dabbled in un-
sayory places no respectable man would
think OF exploring-all among the native
riff-ran. He educated himself in this
peculiar way for seven years, and peo-
ple could not appreciate it. He was
perpetually going Fantee" among ma
tives, which of course. no man with any
sense believes in. He was initiated into.
the Sat Bhai at Allahabad once when he
was on leave: he knew the Lizard Song
of the Sansis, and the Halli-Hukk dance,
which is a religious can-can of start
ling kind. When a man knows who
dance the Halli- Hukk, and how, and
when, and where. he knows something to
be proud of. He has gone deeper than
the skin. But Strickland was not proud,
though he had helped once, at Jagad-
hri, at the Painting Of the Death Bull,
which no Englishman must even look
upon; had mastered the thieves patter
OF the changars; had taken an Eusafazi
- al
stood under the mimbar-board of a Bor-
der mosque and conducted service in the
manner of Sunni Mollah.
His crowning achievement was spend
ing eleven days as faQuir in the gar
dens of Baba Atal at Amristar, and
there picking up the threads OF the
great Nasiban murder case. But peo-
pie said, Justly enough. why on earth
can't Strickland sit in his office and
write up his diary and recruit and keep
quiet instead of showing up the inca
pacity of his seniors?" So the NASH
ban murder case did him no good de-
partmentally, but after his first feeling
OF wrath he returned to his outlandish
custom of prying into native life. BY
the way, when man once acquires a
taste for this particular amusement 1t
abides with him all his days. 1t is the
most fascinating thing in the world,
love not excepted Where other men
took ten days to the hills, Strickland
took leave for what he called Skikar, put
on the disguise that appealed to him at
the time, stepped down into the brown
crowd and was swallowed up for awhile.
He was quiet. dark young fellow.
spare, black eyed. and-when he was
not thinking Of something elsa very
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interesting companion. Strickland on
Native Progress as he had seen it was
worth hearing. Natives hated Strick-
land, but they were afraid Of him. He
knew too much.
When the Youghals came into the sta
tion Strickland-very gravely, as he did
everything-fell in love with Miss Youg-
hal: and she. after while, fell in love
with him because she could not under
stand him. Then Strickland told the
parents. but Mrs. Youghal said she was
not going to throw her daughter into
the worst paid department in the En-
pfre, and old Youghal said in so many
words that he mistrusted Strickland s
ways ard works. and would thank him
not to speak or write to his daughter
sny more. VERY WELL" said Strick-
land, for he did not wish to make his
lady-love's life a burden. After one
lorg talk with Miss Youghal he dropped
the business entirely.
The Youghais went up to Simla in
April
In July Strickland secured three
months leave on urgent private af-
fairs" He locked up his house. though
not a native in the province would will
Iingly have touched "Estreekin sahib's"
gear for the world-and went down to
see a friend of his, an old dyer, at
Tarn Taran.
Here all trace of him was lost until
a Sails met me on the Simla Mall with
this extraordinary note:
Dear Old Man: Please give bearer
a box of cheroots-Supers, No. 1. for
preference. They are freshest at the
club. I'll repay you when / reappear;
but at present I'm out of society.
Yours E. STRICKLAND"
I ordered two boxes and handed them
over to the Sais, with my love. That
Sais was Strickland, and he was in old
Youghars employ. attached to Miss
Youghals Arab. The poor fellow was
suffering for an English smoke, and
knew that whatever happened / should
hold my tongue till the business was
over.
Later on Mrs. Youghal, who was
wrapped up in her servants, began talk
ing at houses where she called OF her
paragon among saises-the man who was
never too busy to get up in the morning
and pick flowers for the breakfast table,
and who Enthusiastically blacked-the
hoofs of his horse like a London coach
man! The turnout of Miss Youghals
Arab was wonder and delight Strick-
land-Dulloo. mean-found his reward
in the pretty things that Miss Youghal
said to him when she went out riding
Her parents were pleased to find she had
forgotten all her foolishness for young
Strickland and said she was a good
girl.
Strickland VOWS that the. two months
of his service were the most rigid men
tai discipline he has ever gone through
Quite apart from the little fact that
the wife of one Of his fellow-saises fell
in love with him and then tried to
poison him with arsenic because he
would have nothing to do with her, he
had TO school himself into keeping quiet
when Miss Youghal went out riding with
some man who tried to fiirt with her,
and he was forced to trot behind car
rying the blanket and hearing every
word, Also he had to keep his temper
when he was slanged in "Benmore"
porch by a poiiceman-especially once
when he was abused by Naik he had
himself recruited from Isser Jang vii
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M.tfrukttpn.

@1nl3e gum neuen poltaiftkn)
LIMB am msiiten bait a%ufaupaHen, BAT
Yetn Erember tpas i'm Srte ftieblt!"
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....Sn simbuftu sibt's ipohl fem
nnppentbeuter 9a4-rNeinl Wenn ba
ois g~testfamiIien ihren ainb.rn elmer
uFtRtn a g MAIDEN pclen, 70
retben re ibnen Die Soblen nit Gag
GIN ii'lo lafIen iie bann auf einen Baum
btnauffttiaen!~
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bod fon1nlt mir bie 8egeiferung
Nu4 eben nur BON Rruge.
Darnm perithf t1 obn' gerbruB
Guf 2orbeer germ bieuieben---
Sd bin NIT melnem Yesaius
unb ct NIT mir 3ufrieben.
#d1miertn.

Direftor gum @daufpieler):
Sic baben Sbre Stole gang gut e;n<
dtubtrt, MIR in bic Sterbef5ene
iniifen Sic ii9 nod etpus mebr
HtntinIeben."
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.Trei fit
i6ma4e Nfdnner.
Gin Seitmittel lit entbeft puroen,
bas herlprene Mannbarfett
ttro Die 3rafte tuiebers
berfteIlt.
Cine ISOLDE. ausreidenbes Qrobe : Yadet
tptrb Senem fret 3ugeianbt, Der
barunt i9reibt.
v@egeneratise SabletsA ino a~neriannt Die ein5ise
Sur eeeen %perloreile Miannbarfeit in alien etabien.
Sic fno miTenl6aftli6 ourb Die beiten aerSte Der
Delt bereetelt. Ser 9tuf bes Snfitutes 1T oerart,
oaB ale Ger5te, Die oas @siluittel b%er[eaen. oafir
ib nerantiportli6 balten. llno tuenn tie anf ibren
&uf bin bebanpten, baB Die r&egeneratipe Sablets&

~oerlorene Mannbarteit, Ioerbru9 ODER s6tpdde Der
g%eidledtliben Srgane beilen, 10 mug pie BUR poftio
uno permanent Iein. Siele &pn1pagnie l6ift Seoen,,
Der an ~nerp0ier S6pd6e leibet, Die Meoi3in fur cine
fp06entlibe gebanoluns frei gu. Sie Mebi3in lam
nur oaourb erprpbt tperDen, baB man Die &eiultate
oes 8ebraa6s %abpartet, tpenn le bas BELT, fir mas
ie sena1t muroe,~ 10 1T fe gu empfeblen. Sieie
lrobe mill Die Galopia aDnn So. nit ibrem Mittel
fur cine gsp6e ~eetatten. ga1oent er Die r4eqene=
ratipe Sablets" cine ISOLDE 9e6raudt bat, miro Der
Yatient &raft in ieinen Srganef u1o Musteln,
ueues Ylut in Ieinen Ioerit. neuem ltnternebmunas=
ge:ft, uno ii6 in @eiunobeit uno GrI6einen ais
neuen WeeniAen finoerl. Die vGegeneratioe So
blets~ babett cine munoerbare @irt1n9 nnD Der 4a=
tlent peripiirt ~bieIelben am eriten Sage. Sic 9ebeu
brett 5itfl Sit beg l1ebels, gang sleib ipie LANCE es
dnitebt uno bringen Strait ino Stdrfe. Sieies ipln=
oerbare Wtittel perbannt aIe S1i6ternbett benz an=
bern 8elble6t ge9enlber, beilt ole llebel, Die aus
neberreisurg, neberan5tren9ung, @eiddftsior9en, Die
gum 8erluft ses @eod6tnihes, l1nfdbi9feit &C ,1flb=
rem, beroergeben. rgRegeneratipe SabletsA ino IN
ieoent utter anpenDbar; ie beilen ale Gdle, aus
eenoinnnen, ipenn ihon Gpileplie poer Srrinn ein=
3etreten fno. Sie Gaaopia 2pnn 50. ma1t feline Be-
lhrdntungen; Seoer, Der oarlm i9reibt, erbalt bas
Wttttel fur cine ISOLDE frei 5u9eididt, ~lorgfdltig ein=
gepadt lito obne gu 3elgen, mas es entbdlt. Sic bat
Saulenbe bon grtefeil aus alien Sbeilen oes 2anoes
~erbaltetl, Die bon ben erftaunli6iten &uren Der p&e=
g%eneratioe Sablets" beri6ten. Sbre Sfferte fir cine
NSohe 1T edit; es tperoen feline acknowledgement Jraeen
geitelt. Shreibt berte an Die Galopia 2pnn &c.,
536 Ge5iui Building, ct. 2ouis, Mo., uno laBt
Gu9 Die Wteoisin fir cine 8o6e fret tommeu. Sbr
Bud. ods e~benfals frei 1T, 9iebt Gu6 Die 9ngaben.
tpie Sbr GtA nit Dem Weittel sI 5ailie ielbit tu=
rireu f0nnt.
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1,,a ner Observation-Disclosures

8 e.brer: ~. 1nb mas aiebt
nns Meniden 10 binauf auf bic
@ergeg-9 ) ere So9ter:
.Dte 9abnrabbahn!!4
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RefffefH.

...D as lit bod fstne Modtnrtle.
fuppe, lteber 59abl1- rNi9t? Mber
hi Aohbuh bier ffebt bod beutli9
fiber BEN Meaept: Modturtlefuppe!!A
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WrrJf.

g d IN robn: ngs 1T
f4redlih, NIT biefem Meibe mub i9
Issein 2eben lang perbunben fein!"-
S4miegermutter: vg1a, ma,
tr0it<n sic fi9 rlur, mein Iieber
@huitseriobn, oht Gage iinb ia fhon
6erurnI"
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@d1limt.tr -Grfnhruuu,

a.: Die muiifalif9e Musbilbung
Shrer 9o9ter bat tpobl bel @elb ges
toftetg1-8.: r8aare taufenb S6aler;
ober, i'm @ertranen, 5peitaufenb gGb'
t9 b'rum-uenn id fie pieber rid
0dn9ig MADDEN f0nnte!"
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- Die Statiftit bes beutihen
Gusfubrbanoels aeiet, baB Der beut.
f1e RDbsuder aus Riben INNER
rtebr Dnr@ cubaniihen Mobr5uder
in ben Ser. Staten uerordnat miro.
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&beumatismu8 1T in bieIem alirna
ibmer3bafter al8 irgenb Elm anberes
Qeiben; tuirb burb elmer & Mmenbs
6tesept Wo. 1851 gebeilt. s. &.
Sbmibt. Ggent. 6ouitpn, 9eras.
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3perrdtteneue Auffn1r,auu.

YRfJn1tRnfnR AnHnUtttt1.
~Nu, 9err Nudbar, id bab' 'slaubt,
ste itnb frnnf-anb ieBt bab'n g bod
f9.o m ieber a Maab!1-
vSp. bin i9 bieaeiht nidt franz, penn
t4 tr 5pei Maab hab2"
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@elhnerkrnntniH.

a.: go, sic 1aben nod 300 Mor>
gen arsren3enbes 2anb baou %ssfauft2"
50, es mar
fhon ldngf mein Wunf9, meiner
6priaont gu ertpeitern!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-28
Huge, Inky Black Clouds Were Roll
ing over Fort De France and Ashes
Were Falling in Dominica.
BIG GRAYISH YELLOW CLOUD
IN THE DIRECTION OF THE ,vOLCA-
NO WAS FRIGHTENING PEOPLE,
Who Also Feared N Tidal Wave Might
Destroy Fort De France-Severe
Storm in st. Vincent.

ROSEAU. Island of Dominica, British
West Indies. May 27.-During the whole of
last night ashes from the volcano of Mar
Unique fell here in greater quantity than
ever experienced since the outbreak of
Mont Pelee.
CASTRIES, Island Of ST. Lucia, B. w. l.,
May 27.-Flames were seen on the Island of
Martinique at frequent intervals last night.
They were visible from the signal station
at this port
FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Martin
ique, May 26, 9 p. m.-Mont Pelee is again
in eruption. For the space of one hour
flames rose from the crater to the height of
80 meters. The crater seemed to be about
300 meters in diameter. Huge, inky black
clouds are rolling over Fort de France in
great masses in which there are peculiar
lightning flashes. The inhabitants are now
fiocking into the great square of the town. If
the demonstration increases panic is i'm
minent. A very heavy surf has been beating
on the shore for the last two hours, and an
enormous, grayish-yellow cloud, at a great
height, is daily visible in the direction of
Mont Pelee. The night is intensely dark
and the stars are only family visible.
Fort de France is in no danger from the
volcano, but there is considerable appre-
hension of a panic in the night time should
the grayish-yellow cloud reach here and
ashes and stones begin to fall. There are
no noises from the volcano at present.
A new source of fright is fear that a
tidal wave may come. A wave eight feet
high would certainly destroy Fort de
France and cause the loss of many lives.
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DESCRIBED BY A SCIENTIST.
Prof. II. Il. Hill on the Zone of De-
struction About Mont PeIee.

FORT DE FRANCE. May 26 delayed in
transmission PROF. Robert T. Hill. United
States government geologist and head of
the expedition sent by the National Geo
graphical Society, has just come in from
a daring and prolonged investigation of the
volcanic activity in Martinique. Professor
Hill chartered a steamer and carefully ex-
amined the coast as far north as Port de
Macouba, at the extreme end of the island,
making frequent landings. After landing
at lie Precheur, five miles north of st.
Pierre, he walked through an area of ac-
tive volcanoism 70 the latter place and
made a minute animation of the various
phenomena disclosed. Professor Hill is the
first and only man who has set foot in the
area of craters, assures and fumaroles,
and, because of his high position as sci
enlist, his story is valuable. In addition to
his work of investigation the professor res
cued in his steamer many poor people of
LIE Precheur wlo had ventured back de-
serting their homes, and found them in aw-
full danger.
He reports as follows: "The zone of de-
struction in Martinique forms an elongated
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