At six p.m.we reached Buedir, a village on the sea shore; and the guide there claiming his due, my uncle settled with him.

It was Hans' own family, that is, his uncles and cousins, who gave us hospitality; we were kindly received, and without taxing too much the goodness of these folks, I would willingly have tarried here to recruit after my fatigues.

But my uncle, who wanted no recruiting, would not hear of it, and the next morning we had to bestride our beasts again.
The soil told of the neighbourhood of the mountain, whose granite foundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some huge oak.

We were rounding the immense base of the volcano.

The Professor hardly took his eyes off it.