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This
time
water
would
be
vanquished
by
fire
.
Nevertheless
it
was
a
fortunate
circumstance
for
the
colonists
that
the
effusion
of
lava
should
have
been
in
the
direction
of
Lake
Grant
.
They
had
before
them
some
days
'
respite
.
The
plateau
of
Prospect
Heights
,
Granite
House
,
and
the
dockyard
were
for
the
moment
preserved
.
And
these
few
days
it
was
necessary
to
employ
in
planking
and
carefully
calking
the
vessel
,
and
launching
her
.
The
colonists
would
then
take
refuge
on
board
the
vessel
,
content
to
rig
her
after
she
should
be
afloat
on
the
waters
.
With
the
danger
of
an
explosion
which
threatened
to
destroy
the
island
there
could
be
no
security
on
shore
.
The
walls
of
Granite
House
,
once
so
sure
a
retreat
,
might
at
any
moment
fall
in
upon
them
.
During
the
six
following
days
,
from
the
25th
to
the
30th
of
January
,
the
colonists
accomplished
as
much
of
the
construction
of
their
vessel
as
twenty
men
could
have
done
.
They
hardly
allowed
themselves
a
moment
's
repose
,
and
the
glare
of
the
flames
which
shot
from
the
crater
enabled
them
to
work
night
and
day
.
The
flow
of
lava
continued
,
but
perhaps
less
abundantly
.
This
was
fortunate
,
for
Lake
Grant
was
almost
entirely
choked
up
,
and
if
more
lava
should
accumulate
it
would
inevitably
spread
over
the
plateau
of
Prospect
Heights
,
and
thence
upon
the
beach
.
But
if
the
island
was
thus
partially
protected
on
this
side
,
it
was
not
so
with
the
western
part
.
In
fact
,
the
second
stream
of
lava
,
which
had
followed
the
valley
of
Falls
River
,
a
valley
of
great
extent
,
the
land
on
both
sides
of
the
creek
being
flat
,
met
with
no
obstacle
.
The
burning
liquid
had
then
spread
through
the
forest
of
the
Far
West
.
At
this
period
of
the
year
,
when
the
trees
were
dried
up
by
a
tropical
heat
,
the
forest
caught
fire
instantaneously
,
in
such
a
manner
that
the
conflagration
extended
itself
both
by
the
trunks
of
the
trees
and
by
their
higher
branches
,
whose
interlacement
favored
its
progress
.
It
even
appeared
that
the
current
of
flame
spread
more
rapidly
among
the
summits
of
the
trees
than
the
current
of
lava
at
their
bases
.
Thus
it
happened
that
the
wild
animals
,
jaguars
,
wild
boars
,
capybaras
,
koalas
,
and
game
of
every
kind
,
mad
with
terror
,
had
fled
to
the
banks
of
the
Mercy
and
to
the
Tadorn
Marsh
,
beyond
the
road
to
Port
Balloon
.
But
the
colonists
were
too
much
occupied
with
their
task
to
pay
any
attention
to
even
the
most
formidable
of
these
animals
.
They
had
abandoned
Granite
House
,
and
would
not
even
take
shelter
at
the
Chimneys
,
but
encamped
under
a
tent
,
near
the
mouth
of
the
Mercy
.
Each
day
Cyrus
Harding
and
Gideon
Spilett
ascended
the
plateau
of
Prospect
Heights
.
Sometimes
Herbert
accompanied
them
,
but
never
Pencroft
,
who
could
not
bear
to
look
upon
the
prospect
of
the
island
now
so
utterly
devastated
.
It
was
,
in
truth
,
a
heart-rending
spectacle
.
All
the
wooded
part
of
the
island
was
now
completely
bare
.
One
single
clump
of
green
trees
raised
their
heads
at
the
extremity
of
Serpentine
Peninsula
.
Here
and
there
were
a
few
grotesque
blackened
and
branchless
stumps
.
The
side
of
the
devastated
forest
was
even
more
barren
than
Tadorn
Marsh
.
The
eruption
of
lava
had
been
complete
.
Where
formerly
sprang
up
that
charming
verdure
,
the
soil
was
now
nothing
but
a
savage
mass
of
volcanic
tufa
.
In
the
valleys
of
the
Falls
and
Mercy
rivers
no
drop
of
water
now
flowed
towards
the
sea
,
and
should
Lake
Grant
be
entirely
dried
up
,
the
colonists
would
have
no
means
of
quenching
their
thirst
.
But
,
fortunately
the
lava
had
spared
the
southern
corner
of
the
lake
,
containing
all
that
remained
of
the
drinking
water
of
the
island
.
Towards
the
northwest
stood
out
the
rugged
and
well-defined
outlines
of
the
sides
of
the
volcano
,
like
a
gigantic
claw
hovering
over
the
island
.
What
a
sad
and
fearful
sight
,
and
how
painful
to
the
colonists
,
who
,
from
a
fertile
domain
covered
with
forests
,
irrigated
by
watercourses
,
and
enriched
by
the
produce
of
their
toils
,
found
themselves
,
as
it
were
,
transported
to
a
desolate
rock
,
upon
which
,
but
for
their
reserves
of
provisions
,
they
could
not
even
gather
the
means
of
subsistence
!
