In the whole annals of noise there is nothing which can be compared to the records. Lloyd’s agent at Batavia, 94 miles distant, says that on the morning of August 27 the reports and concussions were deafening. At Carimon, Java Island, reports were heard which led to the belief that some vessel offshore was making signals of distress, and boats were accordingly put out to render succor, but no vessel was found, as the reports were from Krakatoa, at a distance of 355 miles. At Macassar, in Celebes, explosions were heard all over the province. Two steamers were sent out to discover the cause, for the authorities did not then know that what they heard came from Krakatoa, 969 miles away. But mere hundreds of miles will not suffice to exemplify the range of this stupendous siren. In St. Lucia Bay, in Borneo, a number of natives, who had been guilty of murder, thought they heard the sounds of vengeance in the approach of an attacking force. They fled from their village, little fancying that what alarmed them really came from Krakatoa, 1,116 miles distant. All over the island of Timor alarming sounds were heard, and so urgent did the situation appear that the government was aroused, and sent off a steamer to ascertain the cause. The sounds had, however, come 1,351 miles, all the way from Krakatoa. In the Victoria Plains of West Australia the inhabitants were startled by the discharge of artillery--an unwonted noise in that peaceful district--but the artillery was at Krakatoa, 1,700 miles distant. The inhabitants of Daly Waters, in South Australia, were rudely awakened at midnight on Sunday, August 26, by an explosion resembling the blasting of a rock, which lasted for a few minutes. The time and other circumstances show that here again was Krakatoa heard, this time at the monstrous distance of 2,023 miles. But there is undoubted testimony that to distances even greater than 2,023 miles the waves of sound conveyed tidings of the mighty convulsion. Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands, is 2,267 miles from Krakatoa, but the thunders traversed even this distance, and created the belief that there must be some ship in distress, for which a diligent but necessarily ineffectual search was made. To pass at once to the most remarkable case of all, we have a report from Mr. James Wallis, chief of police in Rodriguez, that “several times during the night of August 26-27, 1883, reports were heard coming from the eastward, like the distant roar of heavy guns. These reports continued at intervals of between three and four hours.” We have thus the astounding fact that almost across the whole wide extent of the Indian Ocean, that is, to a distance of nearly 3,000 miles (2,968), the sound of the throes of Krakatoa was propagated.