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Then, at variable distances from the crater, and in different directions, islands were to be found of almost any desired temperature. The wealthier Hili-lites owned summer residences on these out-lying islands, situated at sailing distances varying from an hour to six hours' travel from Hili-li.
Even Peters, old and dying never a man to whom art spoke in more than whispers even he was aroused from the arms of death when he spoke of the women of Hili-li. 'Were they blondes? I asked him. 'No. 'Were they brunettes? 'No. They were simply entrancing never to be forgotten. Each and everyone of them, like Helen, won by her mere presence the adoration of man.
The temperature of the water of this bay at its inner extremity is probably about 180 F. say 32 below the boiling-point of distilled water; and it flows in a steady current past the Island of Hili-li. This bay is undoubtedly fed from the opposite side of the great crater, and its supply flows for miles in contact with hot lava.
With the singleness of purpose and uniformity of action seen in an army under command of a leader, the natives of a hundred antarctic islands swarmed into ten thousand fragile boats, and directed their course toward the south. Why toward the south? Did instinct tell them that by such a course the various bands would converge to a union? They knew not. The first few boats arrived at Hili-li.
A moment later he dropped into an animated, almost rhapsodical, running comment on some of the scenic beauties surrounding Hili-li.
In persons accustomed to a climate as warm as that of Hili-li, the heat-producing functions are feeble, and the heat-expelling functions are very active; but this does not fully explain why, in Peters' words, 'the people there froze to death without freezing. Any person dying as a result of exposure to cold, dies long before any of the vital organs are frozen; and the Hili-lites no doubt ceased to live with a reduction of bodily temperature which would not have seriously inconvenienced a resident of Scotland or Canada.
A small boat was at their disposal, and they soon almost daily took the liberty of rowing across the harbor to the wharf at the end of the main street of Hili-li, where they would disembark, and wander for hours around this strange old city, viewing in wonderment its beauties, its peculiarities, its mysteries. "Hili-li is a city of from one to two hundred thousand people.
From all sides, on came the invaders in their frail boats, in one mad rush upon the main island of Hili-li, where the Hili-lites had, including their women, children, and aged men, gathered.
Doctor Bainbridge glanced at the map of Hili-li, which I had spread out on the table, and began: "In the ducal palace," said he, "in which through the kindness of the younger members of the household, Pym and Peters were permitted to reside at first only in the servants' quarters the servants, however, being, at least in social manners, equal to the strangers there were, besides the immediate family of the duke, many more or less close family connections.
So well were they treated that in less than a week they felt quite as strong and otherwise natural as they had on leaving the harbor of Nantucket. "So elegant and expressive, yet so simple was the language of Hili-li, that Pym could in two weeks understand and speak it sufficiently well for ordinary converse; whilst Peters was able to employ it sufficiently for his purposes, in about a month.
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