E universal chaos, it were unwilling to enlighten the surrou

As, the sudden generation of so much excessive heat set fire to what
remained of trees and everything combustible, so that the island
appeared to be one vast seething conflagration, and darkness was for a
time banished by a red glare that seemed to Nigel far more intense than
that of noonday. It is indeed the partiality, (if we may say so), of
conflagration-light which gives to it the character of impressive power
with which we are all so familiar--the intense lights being here cut
sharply off by equally intense shadows, and then grading into dull reds
and duller greys. The sun, on the other hand, bathes everything in its
genial glow so completely that all nature is permeated with it, and
there are no intense contrasts, no absolutely black and striking
shadows, except in caverns and holes, to form startling contrasts.
"These safety-valves," said the hermit, referring to the new craters,
"have, under God, been the means of saving us from destruction." "It
would seem so," said Nigel, who was too overwhelmed by the sight to say
much. Even as he spoke the scene changed as if by magic, for from the
cone of Perboewatan there issued a spout of liquid fire, followed by a
roar so tremendous that the awe-struck men shrank within themselves,
feeling as though that time had really come when the earth is to melt
with fervent heat! The entire lake of glowing lava was shot into the
air, and lost in the clouds above, while mingled smoke and steam went
bellowing after it, and dust fell so thickly that it seemed as if
sufficient to extinguish the raging fires. Whether it did so or not is
uncertain. It may have been that the new pall of black vapour only
obscured them. At all events, after the outburst the darkness of night
fell suddenly on all around. Just then the wind again changed, and the
whole mass of vapour, smoke, and ashes came sweeping like

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