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We had not burned as it was cloudy, and even rainy most of the way. We arrived at the Volcano at 1 1/2 P.M. and were lame and tired. We rested and had dinner, and at 3 P.M. started to go down into the crater. We could see from the Volcano House, looking down into it, the whole surface of the crater. seven miles in diameter, circular, and one thousand feet deep. Then the great black floor with terraced walls, marking the different periods of depression. At times, it is filled up for months, then again for years, and all at once, in a moment of time. it will fall one hundred or more feet, sometimes leaving a precipitous ledge, then perhaps at another time, another of smaller diameter is left, and so on, until it has the appearance of terraced banks, and is quite difficult of descent. As I looked down into this great, deep, black crater, I found that my idea of a volcano, was of a very different character than this. Instead of volumes of fire and lava shooting up heaven high, only now and then a little streak of smoke was blown about, and reminded me of the smouldering remains of a thoroughly burned fallow ground. No fire to be seen. We must go quite near it to see it. This crater is on the side of the mountain. The crater is four thousand five hundred feet high, with the floor three thousand five hundred feet or one thousand feet depression. The mountain is fourteen thousand feet high. There is a crater on its summit, which is sometimes active. I had no thought of going into the crater that day, but I was not going to be left out. We began to descend those almost perpendicular walls, and I almost groaned from pain of sore muscles from my ride. But applying the rule "like cures like", and ere I reached the bottom the soreness was nearly gone. I became so interested that I forgot all fatigue. We soon reached the floor of the largest active crater in the world. We felt the heat from beneath, as we walked over this ever changing abyss, and soon came to where we could see fire just below us in the cracks, and put in our sticks, and they instantly took fire. On we walked, gaining interest and losing fear. We passed cones that had ceased to be vents, and others that were roaring and dashing liquid fire. One was a cataract