Excerpt from Search for the Universal Ancestors
The day was calm. The waves that lapped the shore were small, almost lazy; they were the waves of shallow waters, not of the open ocean. A ruddy sun shone in the hazy sky. The slow stream that came down to the foreshore rippled a little in the light wind, and the pebbles tumbled here and there without much energy. Drama was not wholly absent, for along the skyline all but lost in the distance were two or three volcanic cones. They were quiet just now, but a walk along the beach would soon bring a traveler to a stretch of all but impassable lava, where once, not so long back, the molten rock had oozed and hissed into the waters from an inland fissure. It would happen again, but no one could foresee just where and when the encounter would take place.
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