At seven we had ascended the two thousand steps of this grand staircase, and we had attained a bulge in the mountain, a kind of bed on which rested the cone proper of the crater.

七点钟，我们登上了这座大楼梯的两千级台阶，到达了山上的一个凸起，就像一张床， 上面搁着火山口的圆锥体。