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Updated: May 17, 2025
In revenge they set fire to the grass, and the navigator very nearly lost his whole stock of gunpowder. He was astonished by the extreme inflammability of the grass and the consequent difficulty in putting it out, and vowed if ever he had to camp in such a situation again, he would first clear the grass around.
"Go away before I get angry with you; you are more Spanish than any Mendoza. The mantón you'll find at home tonight." He was, frankly, worried about Andrés; not fundamentally Andrés' loyalty was beyond any personal betrayal but because he was aware of the essential inflammability of all tropical emotion.
They were not entirely free from the excitement of the day, and as they talked with an air of superiority, of Creole inflammability, and with some contempt concerning Camille Brahmin's and Charlie Mandarin's efforts to precipitate a war, they were yet visibly in a state of expectation.
As the whole building was of wood, it is possible that the heat of the candles in the lantern, continued during the long period of between forty and fifty years, might have brought the thin boards which lined the cupola to such a state of dryness and inflammability, that, together with the soot which encrusted it, and which was formed from the smoke of the candles, it might have been as liable to take fire as a mass of tinder, and a single spark from one of the candles would be sufficient to effect the mischief.
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