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The last thousand feet or so had been very hard work, and we were obliged to stop every few steps, but on the comparatively level edge of the crater we felt no difficulty in moving about. Popocatepetl means "Smoking Mountain." The Indians naturally enough considered it to be the abode of evil spirits, and told Cortes and his companions that they could never reach the top.
Cotopaxi and Popocatepetl, which I saw ejecting smoke and ashes, in 1804, are farther from both the Pacific and the Gulf of the Antilles, than Grenoble is from the Mediterranean, and Orleans from the Atlantic. The peak is covered with snow during part of the year; we ourselves found it still so in the plain of Rambleta. Messrs.
However, the past did not necessarily answer for the future. Often, at the summit of volcanoes, the old craters close and new ones open. This had occurred in the two hemispheres at Etna, Popocatepetl, at Orizabaand on the eve of an eruption there is everything to be feared.
The two mountains mentioned by the Indian were towering up behind us a sight that alone repaid for our difficult ascent; we could admire in turn the three loftiest volcanoes in Mexico. "Where is Popocatepetl?" asked Lucien. "There; that enormous cone which rises to our right," I answered, pointing in that direction. "Is it the smallest of the three?"
Bungle got in one free-handed slap at the little dog as she went under, while Popocatepetl caught her on the rebound as Tootsie came out. The long, silky hair of the dog saved her from any injury. But she was so scared that she yelped as though the claws of both cats had torn her. "Oh! my poor Tootsie!" wailed the doctor's wife. "They will kill her." Dot stood, open mouthed.
Three or four arrogant competitors stood forth and valiantly spelled such words as "Popocatepetl," "Tschaikowsky," "terpsichorean," "Yang-tse-Kiang," "Yseult," and scores of words that could scarcely be pronounced by the teacher herself. But at last, just as the sleepy watchers began to nod and yawn the hardest, Mrs.
Bungle, Dot's own particular pet among Sandyface's children, was now a great lazy cat; but he was gentle. Dorothy could do anything with him and with Popocatepetl, as well. One day the doctor's wife came to call at the old Corner House.
"They were passing between two of the highest mountains on the North American continent, Popocatepetl, 'the hill that smokes' and Iztaccihuatl, or 'white woman; a name suggested, doubtless, by the bright robe of snow spread over its broad and broken surface.
This mountain is not conical like Popocatepetl, but its shoulders are broader, and break into grand peaks, like some of the Dents of Switzerland, and it has no crater. Indeed, the two mountains, joined together like Siamese twins, look as though they had been set up, side by side, to illustrate the two contending theories of the formation of volcanos.
These glories have passed like the dark smoke thrown out by the fires of Popocatepetl, leaving no monuments but the rude skins on which they are written. Ha! ha!
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