Text Appearing Before Image: . While these were engaged in consultation below, a ter-rible outburst of the volcano settled the matter for them,and brought them all hastily on deck. The summit of the crater seemed to have been blownup into the air with a most terrific noise, while a densemass of smoke, steam, and ashes was hurled upwards, andseemed to blot out the sky. Twilight, whicli had beendeepening, was converted into blackest night in a moment,and darkness profound would undoubtedly have con-tinued, had it not been for the lurid glare of the fireswhich flashed at intervals from the crater. Suddenly thewaters of the sea became agitated. The ship rockeduneasily, and jerked at her cable, while the terrifiedpeople clung to shrouds and ropes, and belaying-pins.Then the fire on the mountain-top increased tenfold involume and intensity. Another moment, and severallarge holes opened in the mountain-side nearest to them,from which streams of molten lava burst forth and beganto descend towards the deserted settlement. Text Appearing After Image: - A TEEKIBLE OUTCUKST CF THE VOLCANO SETTLED THE ilATTEPv.—Page 234, A TALE OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISrHERE. 237 At that moment there was a great shout. It had beendiscovered that in the confusion little Brown-eyes hadbeen forgotten! A small boat hung at the davits on the port side. Itwas manned instantly. The doctor jumped to the helm,Otto followed, and, before any could interpose, the queensuddenly stepped in. You are mad ! cried the doctor. Lower away ! said Pina, as if she had been a trainedsea-captain all her life. Instantly the ropes were eased off, and in a few secondsthe boat was in the sea and on the shore. They foundlittle Brown-eyes sound asleep in her crib, with a riverof red-hot lava stretching its fiery tongues towards her asif eager for a meal! Supple-limbed Otto was first; he seized the child andbore her off to the boat. Another terrible explosionoccurred just then. Ashes and masses of rock began torain around them. A falling stone struck Paulines head,and she fell. The d
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