New Britain herald., 1921-06-24

up. 1 awoke about D. m., arose and went outside, and soon MT. c. joined me. We then went into the hut and spread our grub out on wooden bench, and we proceeded to make a good meal, finishing off with a big piece of fruit cake. Our cooliea sat near us and watched every move we made. MT. c. got out hia cigara fe| 6 smoke. He treated the cooliea to smoke by giving them eachta hali of a cigar They got along with them pretty well except one fellow who made the mistake of putting tho mouth end of his portion in hia mouth, but pull as he did with all his lung power he could not mako any smoke. I suggested to c. that per haps he had not bitten of the end of it. so c. reached over and taking it from him cut off the end with hia knife and gave it back to him. Well. the way that fellow then made the smoke was simply Imaginable, and the other coolies joined in with the loud est guffawG one ever heard. Very soon, however, they were a silent and a sad lot of coolies; one-half of real cigar was too much for them.
 AS it was bright moonlight, c. and I went out and had good view of the crater, and it was well that we did, for we were the only ones in our party that saw it, though I caught one good glimpse of it the next morn ing. August 2nd.
 Beautiful Scenery.
 Tho next morning all were on deck none the worse for the wear and tear of the preceding day and the loss of their dinner of the evening before. The sky, however, was overcast, and the scuds were flying past at a mile a minute speed, and it was quite cold We were on the very top edge of a heavy rain storm which was only like a heavy fog with very little moisture in it. It waa in a sudden lifting of this fog that I got my glimpse of the crater, which iI 2.630 feet in diam eter and 45O feet deep. From a dis tance the top of Mount Fuji looks quite smooth and even, but the top edge of the crater is really quite in itself. There are eight peaks around the crater, and l the highest peak is called Kengarine. |
 There are number of stone huts | at the top of Fuji, which are built on the west side of street that runs along the eastern edge of the crater.
 
 re a few stone huts on the left hand side of this street. Here it is always with natives who usually ar rive in the early morning, as they | seem to prefer to do their climbing | at night The stone huts, the cat enary shaped street, the Japanes~-7ith[ r heir various garbs and conical pointed straw hats, or none at all, makes one of the most picturesque
 scenes [ ever saw.
 Of course. everyone wants to get red stamp put on their staff, and liter we had worked long and hard O get into one of the stone huta where we were told this work was , lone, we were informed that their york had ceased for the tima being l nd that we would have to go into a ut on the opposite side of the street where a relief gang was working. So ve crowded in there and we finally h ecured the coveted red stamp for a | consideration. It il always @ oOn- $ iteration out here. $
 Resina Descent. e Az there waa nothing else to keep g here any longer, we rounded up UT goriki and began our descent to z z "a ami Y oshida. Al we descended the !, fountain we got into the rain storm, '. -hich became almost a driving down. : our by the timo we had descended ,OOO feet At the eighth station we off to the left and took the oshida trail, and here is where the + uides were real servicable as there c