But it happens that my business requires me to leave in the course of a few days at any rate, so, whether the eruption becomes fiercer or feebler, it will not matter to us.

I have preparations to make, however, and I have no doubt you won't object to remain till all is ready for a start ?" "Oh, as to that," returned the youth, slightly hurt by the implied doubt as to his courage, "if _you_ are willing to risk going off the earth like a skyrocket, I am quite ready to take my chance of following you!" "An' Moses am de man," said the negro, smiting his broad chest with his fist, "what's ready to serve as a rocket-stick to bof, an' go up along wid you!" The hermit made the nearest approach to a laugh which Nigel had yet seen, as he left the cave to undertake some of the preparations above referred to.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 2: See _The Eruption of Krakatoa and Subsequent Phenomena_, p.
11.

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