. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. CHAPTER XXI. THE EA S TERN PA SSA EARTHQUAKES — THE VOLCANO — A TOWN DESTROYED — RACING ATHUNDERSTORM. |E were ten days in amongst the islands, andit was so fearfully hot all the time that Icouldnt muster enough energy even to writeup my To-day we are out in the openPacific, clear of all the islands, and the weather,although we are almost on the equator, is nothinglike so oppressive as it has been for the last tired of islands now. One eventful day, though,requires to be ment
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. CHAPTER XXI. THE EA S TERN PA SSA EARTHQUAKES — THE VOLCANO — A TOWN DESTROYED — RACING ATHUNDERSTORM. |E were ten days in amongst the islands, andit was so fearfully hot all the time that Icouldnt muster enough energy even to writeup my To-day we are out in the openPacific, clear of all the islands, and the weather,although we are almost on the equator, is nothinglike so oppressive as it has been for the last tired of islands now. One eventful day, though,requires to be mentioned ; it was when we were passingFlores, the most beautiful, I think, of all the islands. Itis volcanic, and some of its grim, scarred peaks rise to agreat altitude—Mount Lobitoki, for instance, being some7,000 feet high, at least it is marked so on the lower parts of the island are thickly covered withtropical vegetation, though here and there—in charmingcontrast with the dense foliage—are grassy slopes, like FLO RES. 269 rivers of radiant green, extending to the waters whole scene, thrown into
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