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.
Het was duidelijk, dat wij opgestuwd werden door eene uitbarsting; onder het vlot was kokend water, en onder dat water smeltende lava, een mengsel van rotssteenen, die zich aan den rand van den krater in alle richtingen zouden verstrooien.