text:  Here we were at the crater! Shall I confess that my first feeling was disappointment? The plan shows some distance between the outer and inner rims immediately below the place where the house (F) is situated; this is filled up by another level which shuts out a great part of the prospect; the remainder was too distant and the sun's rays too powerful to allow of our seeing more than a quantity of smoke and an occasional fiery ebullition from the further extremity