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Men bringing rowing boats ashore on Walliabou Beach (mouth of Walliabou river valley) on the Leeward side of St Vincent. Royal Society scientists are seen in white pith helmets.

Vegetation stripped, ridges covered in ash and steam rising from river valleys. Local men carrying equipment in the foreground.

Expedition crosses a river of boiling mud using large tree trunks as a bridge, possibly near Georgetown.

Three men and a woman inspect a house in Orange Hill that remains standing after the eruption, ash and debris are seen on the floor and surrounding trees have been stripped of vegetation.

A view looking upslope over a muddy landscape devoid of plant life. A person stands in the foreground.

A view looking upslope taken from the side of a valley. The surface appears bare other than the presence of trunks of felled trees. Eroded rills are present on the ashy/muddy surface. A person stands in the middle distance in the centre of the photo.…

A view overlooking the crater of La Soufrière most likely taken from the crater rim at the head of the Wallibou river. A white column of steam emanates from the crater floor. From the foreground and into the distance, bare and rilled hillslopes are…

Image of the relatively small cone generated by a secondary eruption within the Rabacca River. Puffs of steam emanate form the cone and the surrounding deposit. Hill slopes in the background are bare aside from the presence of trunks of fallen trees.

An image of the culmination of a secondary eruption within the main crater taken from the crater rim near Wallibou. A white plume of steam emanates from the crater floor; at its base there is a shorter column of darker ash. Image also contains a…

Photo taken from Bunker Hill of Wallibou River. Numerous white puffs of steam emanate from various points in deposit. Larger concentration of steam emission is focussed within a gulley/channel structure in middle of image. Surrounding slopes in…