only a short time before a gust of present wind tore the cloth beyond repair and the wreckage could beused only for covering the camp boxes. Meanwhile my tent, which was a new one, was being slatted about so in the wind that Spence and I were kept busy renewing its anchorage in the soft ash and lapilli, and there was con- stant danger of its being swept a- way down the mountain. That after- noon we struck the good tent, cached most of our effects under the canopy a good tarp hanging that I had tas of the wrecked tent and started down the trail in search of a more protected campsite. This we found in the lee of some pigeon-berry trees not far from our water holes 1000 feet below the rim - Leaving what packages we had brought down,