At last, after about four hours, this marvellous excursion came to an end. A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of giga...

But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingl...

But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...