A sept heures du soir nous avions monté les deux mille marches de l'escalier, et nous dominions une extumescence de la montagne, sorte d'assise sur laquelle s'appuyait le cône proprement dit du cratère.
By seven in the evening we had climbed the two thousand steps of the staircase. We stood at the top of a big swelling of the mountain, a sort of base on which rested the cone forming the crater.
De là où nous étions, nous dominions toute la vallée.
We could take in the whole valley from where we were.
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