Show A NIGHT IN A CRATER 1 A strange Stra affe Exper experienc lenc weird beauty and prismatic effects after a long search van trump finally found the ico ice cave where gen stevens ri and himself had found shelter for the night in 1870 but alas I 1 the roof had melted awa away y leaving only a circular well in the ice some six or nr eight feet in depth and about eighteen feet in diameter from a email small and ir irregular regula r hole in the center issued a scalding jet of steam about the she size of ones little finger around which still remained in the loose rocks piled up by the last tenants of this rude hostelry rebuilding the low wall to en close a space large enough for their bodies to lie in longmire and van trump slowed stowed themselves away in inside the wall and on either side of the steam jet while with hatchet and alpenstock alpene tock I 1 leveled off the stones for a short path some somo seven feet long inside the cave and prepared so 0 o pass the night pacing to and fro to keep from freezing pre ferring this weary exercise to scalding ng myself with tho abeam which bad saturated the clochi clothing of my compa companions anions etwas a dreary outlook for the night aa as the I 1 thermometer er ometer soon fell to twenty degrees es fah and the wind howled and roared and poured down into our ico ice walled cave upon our protected heads with a fury that made us u long for for the warm blankets we left in in camp 1 1 I succeeded in ke keeping pg tolerably comfortable till in midnight bight on my feet but finally overcome by drowsiness and after repeated falls and bruise bruises on the sharp rocks was obliged to join my comrades arlund i 1 he register notwithstanding the discomfort and misery of our situ situation one could not but take note of the weird beauty of the night and the brilliant prismatic effect effects of the full moon directly over our beads hining from a cloudless sky upon the blue ice walls of our cavern not even the ice palace of blou montreal treal illuminated with myriads of electric lights could rival in beauty the wonderful color colors displayed in our fairy grotto by moonlight the long night nigh tat at last wo wore re away and I 1 by morning we were awat fairly fairy I 1 bookel cooked by the steam we could coul face it but a few mo moments menti at a time aad when we turned around our clothing was instantly frozen to sheets of ice the monotony and discomfort of this procedure m may b be imagined without further e elaboration la llora tion georgo georze bayley bayle vv I 1 in in september everlana Ot Over lana |