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Updated: June 3, 2025
And near the northern extremity of the isle, a third group of mammelated heights could be recognised under the general name of Perboewatan, from which issued several obsidian lava-flows, with a steep slope; these dated back perhaps to the period of the first known eruption of 1680.
The negro would have laughed aloud, but the danger of choking was too great; he therefore laughed internally an operation which could not be fully understood unless seen. "'Splosions of Perboewatan," may suggest the thing. Sorrow, grief whatever it was that habitually afflicted that monkey disappeared for the time being, while it devoted itself heart and soul to dinner.
"That is just what I was going to point out. They call that Perboewatan. It is the lowest peak on the island, about 400 feet high, and stands, I should say, in the very centre of the ancient crater, where are the two fissures I have mentioned.
The extreme summit of Perboewatan had been blown into a thousand fragments, which were hurtling upwards and crackling loudly as the smaller masses were impelled against each other in their skyward progress. This crackling has been described by those who heard it from neighbouring shores as a "strange rustling sound."
Yes, science has done much to reveal the marvellous and arouse exalted thoughts in the human mind, but it has also done something to crush enthusiasts and shock the romantic. Veracity constrains us to state that there he was, with his tripod, and his eager haste, and his hideous black cloth, preparing to "take" Perboewatan on a "dry plate"! And he "took" it too!
The scene that met their eyes on reaching the ledge or plateau was sublime in the extreme, as well as terrific. "As I thought," said Van der Kemp, in a low tone. "It is Perboewatan that has broken out." "The cone from which I observed smoke rising?" asked Nigel. "The same.
"An' he's a good defender ob it," said Moses, "for if man or beast happen to come near it when Spinkie's in charge, dat monkey sets up a skriekin' fit to cause a 'splosion ob Perboewatan!" Breakfast over, the hermit put his cave in order for a pretty long absence, and they again descended to the shore, each man carrying his bed on his shoulder. Each bed, however, was light and simple.
For two hundred years Perboewatan has not smoked like that, and, slight though it is at present, I cannot help thinking that it indicates an impending eruption, especially when I consider that earthquakes have become more numerous of late years, and there was one in 1880 which was so violent as to damage seriously the lighthouse on Java's First Point."
I can never forget the fact that the greater part of Krakatoa stands, as you know, exactly above the spot where the two great lines of volcanic action cross, and right over the mouth of the immense crater to which Perboewatan and all the other craters serve as mere chimneys or safety-valves. We cannot tell whether a great eruption similar to that of 1680 may not be in store for us.
The negro would have laughed aloud, but the danger of choking was too great; he therefore laughed internally an operation which could not be fully understood unless seen. "'Splosions of Perboewatan," may suggest the thing. Sorrow, grief whatever it was that habitually afflicted that monkey disappeared for the time being, while it devoted itself heart and soul to dinner.
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