Transcription: At eight o'clock the next morning, a faint kind of dawn awoke us. Rays of daylight glinted from the lava walls. We were able to see objects around us with ease. We have only just reached the ground level of the island, said the professor. This long vertical tube, which starts at the bottom of the crater of Snaffles, stops here at sea level. We consulted the barometer to confirm this, but my uncle said he would prefer to use the manometer from this point. With the weight of air becoming greater than its at sea level, our barometer would now become useless. But, I asked my uncle, how will we be ...
