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The day wore on, and no shadow came to lay itself along the bottom of the crater.
The sun poured a flood of light down the crater.
"What do you mean?""I mean that we have only reached the level of the island, long vertical tube, which terminates at the mouth of the crater, has its lower end only at the level of the sea.""Are you sure of that?""Quite sure.
May God give us strength to climb up the crater again!""Return!" said my uncle, as if he was rather answering himself than me.
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.
"There is no more water, Axel; only a lava paste, which is bearing us up on its surface to the top of the crater."
It has lasted now five minutes, and in a short time we shall resume our journey to the mouth of the crater."
Hans had saved me from death whilst I lay rolling on the edge of the crater.
Look, Axel, look!"Above our heads, at a height of five hundred feet or more, we saw the crater of a volcano, through which, at intervals of fifteen minutes or so, there issued with loud explosions lofty columns of fire, mingled with pumice stones, ashes, and flowing lava.
It was the rugged mouth of the crater, by which the eruptive liquid matter had escaped at the periods when the volcano was still in activity.
Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable?
The atmosphere inside the crater was filled with no sulphurous vapor.
Little by little, Herbert and he climbing up the sides of the interior, saw the crater widen above their heads.
Then, as the crater widened, appeared Fomalhaut of the Fish, the Southern Triangle, and lastly, nearly at the Antarctic Pole, the glittering Southern Cross, which replaces the Polar Star of the Northern Hemisphere.
The crater was reached.
The interior of the crater, whose inclination did not exceed thirty five to forty degrees, presented no difficulties nor obstacles to the ascent.
As to the volcanic chimney which established a communication between the subterranean layers and the crater, its depth could not be calculated with the eye, for it was lost in obscurity.
Before eight o'clock Harding and his companions were assembled at the summit of the crater, on a conical mound which swelled the northern edge.
Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night.
However, Cyrus Harding did not remember having seen, at the time of his excursion to the crater, any other watercourses but the Red Creek and the Mercy.
"It is possible that since our exploration of the crater," replied Cyrus Harding, "some change has occurred.
"The crater, that is to say, the safety-valve, exists, and the overflow of smoke and lava, would escape, as it did formerly, by this customary outlet."
"No," answered Harding, "not a vapor escapes from the crater, for it was only yesterday that I attentively surveyed the summit.
It was explored thus to the very summit of the truncated cone terminating the first row of rocks, then to the upper ridge of the enormous hat, at the bottom of which opened the crater.
On the 7th of September, Cyrus Harding, having observed the crater, saw smoke curling round the summit of the mountain, its first vapors rising in the air.
The volcano had awoke, and the vapor had penetrated the mineral layer heaped at the bottom of the crater.
But the corral would be in great danger should a new crater open in the southern side of Mount Franklin.
The phenomenon was still concentrated in the lower part of the central crater.
Already for three months had the crater emitted vapors more or less dense, but which were as yet produced only by an internal ebullition of mineral substances.
"It may be so," replied Cyrus Harding, "for the ancient track of the lava is still open; and thanks to this, the crater has hitherto overflowed towards the north.
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