no upon the island of St. Vincent, 90 miles away. La Soufrière was flashing. Then Pelée answered. Pelée hugely answered, in tones befitting greater magnitude. A dozen flickers in the southern sky -- and then Pelée speaking up, with a blinding, electric opinion. The little female volcano, or anyway the volcano with a feminine name, nagged and nagged, and was then answered with a roar. This bickering kept up a long time.
About 5 o'clock, morning of the 4th, there was another appearance, upon the southern horizon. It was a dense bulk of smoke from La Soufrière. It drifted slowly. It went directly to Pelée, and massed about Pelée.
There's no use arguing with a little, female volcano: she casts out
obscurations. But there may be enormous use for this occurrence regarded
as data. 
1. "Indiana" and "California." Monthly Weather Review, 11 (December 1883): 289.
2. William Noble. "The recent extraordinary sunrises and sunsets." Knowledge, 5 (June 6, 1884): 418.
3. "Notes." Nature, 29 (February 21, 1884): 387-390, at 388. "The eruption of a volcano in Western Australia." Perth Inquirer (Australia), October 31, 1883, p.5 c.3-4.
4. Ashes also fell 50 miles away from Krakatoa at Telok Betong according to a verbal report.
5. Fort marked "X" in the margin next to this sentence to indicate the error of "shatered", instead of shattered, in the Claude Kendall edition.
6. "The tidal wave at Java." Cape Times (Cape Town), October 3, 1883, p.4 c.4. J. Grant, aboard the Anerley, writes that, on the evening of August 26th: "We noticed a strange phenomenon in the sky, it seemed as though the clouds were discasing comets or shooting stars in vast numbers which went down to the water and returned to the clouds again."
7. George James Symons, ed. The Eruption of Krakatoa, and Subsequent Phenomena. London: Trübner & Co., 1888, 269. Foochow is now identified as Fuzhou, China.
8. "Singular phenomena." Perth Inquirer, October 3, 1883, p.5 c.5.
9. "Another comet." New Zealand Times, September 20, 1883, p.2 c.5.
10. "The great comet of 1882...." Athenaeum and Daily News (Madras), September 22, 1883, p.2 c.4. For the original newspaper reports: "The comet again." Ceylon Observer (Colombo), September 15, 1883, p.835 c.2. "The comet." Ceylon Observer, September 15, 1883, p.835 c.3.
11. Straits Times, (October 13, 1883; comet-like obj).
12. William Noble. "A curious phenomenon." Knowledge, 4 (September 14, 1883): 173. Correct quote: "...the apparition of a new...."
13. W.K. Bradgate. "A curious phenomenon." Knowledge, 4 (September 28, 1883): 207.
14. "Swift's new comet." Observatory, 6 (1883): 345.
15. "The new star in the Andromeda nebula." English Mechanic, 42 (September 11, 1885): 23. Though Copeland announced by telegram: "Variation in Andromeda Nebula, found by Dr. Hartwig, of Dorpat; starlike nucleus," the nova was independently discovered by I.W. Ward, on August 19; by M. Lajoye, at Rheims, France, on August 30; and, by G.T. Davis, of Theale, England, on September 1. No observation from Ireland was reported in this article. Saxby had observed "the singular brightness of the nebula," in early August; and, on September 3, he was "astonished" to find a bright star in the center of the nebula.
16. "Editorial notes." Sidereal Messenger, 4, 246. The amateur observer, J.C. McClure, had noticed it on August 29; and, Pickering had noticed it on September 1, at Cambridge.
17. "The new star in the Great Nebula of Andromeda (Messier 31)." Observatory, 8 (1885): 330-6. In this article, only Joseph Gledhill and C.L. Prince believed, at first, that the new light was caused by a comet.
18. The Andromeda Nebula, as it was once identified, is now identified by the conventionalists as the Andromeda Galaxy; and, its measured diameter has greatly increased from the eight light years, once given, to a much greater figure.
19. "Notes." Nature, 32 (September 3, 1885): 425-428, cannot locate on p.427).
20. "Notes." Nature, 32 (September 17, 1885): 493-5, at 495.
21. W.F. Denning. "The new star." Nature, 32 (September 10, 1885): 465-6. Paul A. Cobbold. "A remarkable sunset." 