| Description | Informs he has just returned from Montenegro and apologises for any delay. Refers to a rquest of futher particulars of of the audability of the eruption of Krakatoa "to ascertain when the sounds are heard, their duration, and degrees of audability", stating it is impossible to do so as the sounds were not heard while off the coast of Celebes. With regard to Dorei, nothing is to be done with Mr Van Hasselt, whom he questioned closely, but not being a man of science, he only noted his ability to hear the sound and nothing else. States that the Rajah of the Island of Salwatty, whilst his stay in Samatee, a village at the north end of the island, told him that the noise of the eruption was audible there but was unable to provide dates of hearing them. |