. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . yed. The process, ofcourse, is not one that can be recommended forany one subject to dizziness. My Japanese guidetook the strongest exception to my availingmyself of it. Fortunately, he did not pursue medown the perilous slope to drag me forcibly outof harms way—that might indeed have ended indisaster. Instead, he contented himself with wildgesticulation on the summit, punctuated withshouts of Abuttal! The floor, as I saw it on that occasion, lyingsome 600 feet below me, appeared a broken,rocky expanse of ground, strewn with b
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . yed. The process, ofcourse, is not one that can be recommended forany one subject to dizziness. My Japanese guidetook the strongest exception to my availingmyself of it. Fortunately, he did not pursue medown the perilous slope to drag me forcibly outof harms way—that might indeed have ended indisaster. Instead, he contented himself with wildgesticulation on the summit, punctuated withshouts of Abuttal! The floor, as I saw it on that occasion, lyingsome 600 feet below me, appeared a broken,rocky expanse of ground, strewn with bigboulders and steaming pools. While thus en-gaged, I was favoured with one of the volcanosperiodical explosions. This, as it happened, tookplace from a fumarole on the opposite side ofthe floor, near its junction with the wall. Theroaring noise which the crater always emits, andwhich resembles nothing so much as that of thesea on a wild night, was suddenly intensified,while from the aperture on the floor densevolumes of black smoke poured in a series of 166 -^.
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