309

CHAPTER XXVI.

MOUNT AETNA AND THE SICILIAN HORRORS.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

A Volcano with a Record of Twenty-five
Centuries--Seventy-eight Recorded
Eruptions--Three Hundred Thousand Inhabitants
Dwelling on the Slopes of the Mountain and in the
Valleys at Its Base--Stories of Earthquake Shocks
and Lava Flows--Tales of Destruction--Described
by Ancient and Modern Writers and Eye-Witnesses 321

CHAPTER XXVII.

LISBON EARTHQUAKE SCOURGED.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

Sixty Thousand Lives Lost in a Few Moments--An
Opulent and Populous Capital Destroyed--Graphic
Account by an English Merchant Who Resided in
the Stricken City--Tidal Waves Drown Thousands
in the City Streets--Ships Engulfed in the
Harbor--Criminals Rob and Burn--Terrible
Desolation and Suffering 334

CHAPTER XXVIII.

JAPAN AND ITS DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

The Island Empire Subject to Convulsions of
Nature--Legends of Ancient Disturbances--Famous
Volcano of Fuji-yama Formed in One Night--More
Than One Hundred Volcanoes in Japan--Two Hundred
and Thirty-two Eruptions Recorded--Devastation of
Thriving Towns and Busy Cities--The Capital a
Sufferer--Scenes of Desolation after the Most
Recent Great Earthquakes 344

CHAPTER XXIX.

KRAKATOA, THE GREATEST OF VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

East Indian Catastrophes--The Volcano that Blew
Its Own Head Off--The Terrific Crash Heard Three
Thousand Miles--Atmospheric Waves Travel Seven
Times Around the Earth--A Pillar of Dust
Seventeen Miles High--Islands of the Malay
Archipelago Blotted Out of Existence--Native
Villages Annihilated--Other Disastrous Upheavals
in the East Indies 353

CHAPTER XXX.

OUR GREAT HAWAIIAN AND ALASKAN VOLCANOES.

BY TRUMBULL WHITE.

Greatest Volcanoes in the World Are Under the
American Flag--Huge Craters in Our Pacific
Islands--Native Worship of the Gods of the
Flaming Mountains--Eruptions of the Past--Heroic
Defiance of Pele, the Goddess of Volcanoes by a
Brave Hawaiian Queen--The Spell of Superstition
Broken--Volcanic Peaks in Alaska, Our Northern
Territory--Aleutian Islands Report Er