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Page 25
... the Happai group, and hope tonight to catch a glimpse of the volcano of Tofua,
or, as it is also called by the natives, Coe afi a Devolo (the Devil's fire). It is a
perfect volcanic cone 2500 feet in height, densely wooded to the edge of the
crater.
... the Happai group, and hope tonight to catch a glimpse of the volcano of Tofua,
or, as it is also called by the natives, Coe afi a Devolo (the Devil's fire). It is a
perfect volcanic cone 2500 feet in height, densely wooded to the edge of the
crater.
Page 30
A huge rock, about 60 feet high, rises from the ... divers can, enter, and find
themselves in a cave about 40 feet wide and 40 in height — the roof forming rude
Gothic arches of very rich and varied colour, and the whole incrusted with
stalactites.
A huge rock, about 60 feet high, rises from the ... divers can, enter, and find
themselves in a cave about 40 feet wide and 40 in height — the roof forming rude
Gothic arches of very rich and varied colour, and the whole incrusted with
stalactites.
Page 38
It is a volcanic rock-mass 1600 feet in height, and about four miles in diameter. It
is exceedingly fertile, but steam rises from all the crevices of the rocks, and the
people have only to scrape a hole in the ground, and therein place their food that
it ...
It is a volcanic rock-mass 1600 feet in height, and about four miles in diameter. It
is exceedingly fertile, but steam rises from all the crevices of the rocks, and the
people have only to scrape a hole in the ground, and therein place their food that
it ...
Page 39
Pools of boiling mud alternate with springs of cold water clear as crystal ; and in
fissures lying but a few feet apart the same strange diversity exists. One sends
forth a blast of scalding steam, while in the next a dripping spring yields its slow
but ...
Pools of boiling mud alternate with springs of cold water clear as crystal ; and in
fissures lying but a few feet apart the same strange diversity exists. One sends
forth a blast of scalding steam, while in the next a dripping spring yields its slow
but ...
Page 40
Huge masses of black rock or liquid fire are tossed in the air, to a height of 200 or
300 feet, often falling back within the crater, or else hurled to the valley below.
Clouds of white steam mingle with denser clouds of the finest dark-grey dust, ...
Huge masses of black rock or liquid fire are tossed in the air, to a height of 200 or
300 feet, often falling back within the crater, or else hurled to the valley below.
Clouds of white steam mingle with denser clouds of the finest dark-grey dust, ...
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| Title | A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war, Volume 2 Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks |
| Author | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming |
| Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons, 1882 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 365 pages |
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