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.
Era evidente que subíamos, empujados por un aluvión eruptivo; debajo de la balsa había aguas hirvientes, y debajo de éstas, una pasta de lavas, un conglomerado de rocas que, al llegar a la boca del cráter, se dispersarían en todos direcciones.