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.
Nyilvánvaló, hogy vulkáni lökés vetett fel bennünket. A tutaj alatt forrt a víz, és a víz alatt fortyogott a lávamassza, a sziklahalmazok remegtek, és készültek rá, hogy a kráteren át minden irányban szétvetődjenek.