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(52) Camp at Rancho.

to the bottom of the crater pieces weighing 1 or 2 lbs. would become detached & fall with a noise something like broken glass or ice.  After resting Mr. N. decided not to try to ascend to the highest point perhaps 200 ft above us, he had a headache & felt very shaky so while he took some pictures of the crater with his "Kodak" I left the guides & him & climbed to the top which is surrounded by a large  cross.  When I reached the top of the point & touched

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the cross the entire Mt. was shut in by clouds & I could not see 30 yds. in any direction.  The guides afterwards said there were some small holes near the cross from which sulphur fumes issue but I did not know it at the time & did not see them.  I remained only about a minute on the point & immediately descended to the edge of the crater where Mr N. was after eating a piece of bread we began our descent by a steep sand slope reaching down