It was very evident that we were being hurried upward upon the crest of a wave of eruption; beneath our raft were boiling waters, and under these the more sluggish lava was working its way up in a heated mass, together with shoals of fragments of rock which, when they arrived at the crater, would be dispersed in all directions high and low.
Il était évident que nous étions rejetés par une poussée éruptive; sous le radeau, il y avait des eaux bouillonnantes, et sous ces eaux toute une pâte de lave, un agrégat de roches qui, au sommet du cratère, se disperseraient en tous les sens.