The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-29
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL CoURE JANUARY

trouble, you no ketchum plenty flour, no ukola, no chi, no tobaceo?"
 Me plenty ukola, me plenty chi, me plenty tobacco" answered the old chief gravely. Me 'fraid, my people plenty fraid.
 Then followed a recital of the first news of the wonderful upheaval of an island from the bottom of the sea, as witnessed by terrified natives living twenty or thirty miles from the scene.
 Tn broken English, mingled with tn e guttural language of his tribe, the old chief related thrilling tales of terrific commotion in the waters to the northwest: of vast quantities of steam, followed by lurid flashes of light by night, of thunderous noises at in- tervals and later of dense numbers of dead fish, birds and even seals that had f1oated to his island and covered the sea for miles.
 At first the agent was inclined to believe the old man had become alarm ed by one of the numerous earth uuakes that occur in that locality from time to time or that, perhaps, Mount Makuskui had been unusually active, and assuring the chief that his village was in no serious danger dismissed him and the subject from his mind
 "A few days later, however, natives from a different village in the neigh borhood of the eruption appeared and told substantially the same tales. Ac- cordingly an expedition was hastily organized under command of s, Ap- plegate and the matter was investi- gated. About sixty miles almost due west of the town of Unalaska lies the Bogoslov group of islands, the distance between them and the island of Un- laska being about twenty of twenty five miles. Toward this group the ex- petition directed it's course.
 Some members of the party believ- ed they were being led out on a more or less fake of a chase in response to the vivid imagination of a few timid natives. Others believed that prob ably a crater had opened up on one of the two little islands. All had a feeling of curiousity to find out just what the trouble was. They found out at least in part,
 "On approaching within few miles of the islands dense clouds of vapor could be seen covering the sea, and alter large numbers of dead fish and marine animals were observed float ing on the water.
 Entering this strange cloud they finally made out the form of the is- lands, but to their utter amazement they were three in number where there had been only two before l CautMusly approaching to within ap- proximaN%Ar five miles of the new is- land they sailed round it. not daring to approach any nearer. The entire group was shrouded in cloud of steam, which increased in density i'm lmeliately about and over the new is- land.
 "Only indirect views could be had of the land, and that only at intervals The water in the vicinity seemed very much disturbed, ana its temperature away above usual.
 Not being able to land or to obtain definite views of the size, height or nature of the island, the party return ed hme, fully cmfniing the reports oi the poor natives ana telling a more wonderful story still.
 Tt is known that In 1779 the first lisland of this wonderful little group rasa from the bed of the sea. In 1SSt the second one made It's appearance l almost exactly one mile from the first deep water intervening. Now appears the third one, almost directly betweer the two and who knows but in time these United States of ours may have added to her dominions an archipela. | go in Boring Sea without conquest and without price?
 Shortly after the Applegate expedi. tion the Albatross visited the locality on her way north. but could not get close enough to make landing.
 Tn July United States revenue cruiser also made it a visit, landed men on the older islands, made esti mates of the size and height of tho new one and obtained some excellent photographs of it,
 "Later Robert s. Dunn, who spen the summer in climbing volcanoes among the Aleutian Islands and Tor the peninsula, visited the group. Ht climbed to the summit and swam il the warm waters adjacent to the short of the new island.
 'The island is composed almos | wholly of vocanic ash and cinders Near the top there is well deanet crater, out of which issue volumes o steam. Steam also pours out from in numerable Assures all over the island
 "Various estimates place it's neigh at from 50 to 70 feet while it is iron one-quarter to one-third of a mile il diameter and is nearly round.
 While the material composing it i still uncomfortably hot, it seems to b rapidly cooling, and doubtless befor | 1oop if will take its nlare with th