chapter 11

1) Pendrick had decided to arm himself with whatever weapon he could find and attempt to escape the island.

2) Pendrick is led to a dark passageway.

"It was extremely dark, this passage, after the blinding

sunlight reflected from the sulphurous ground. Its walls

grew steep, and approached each other. Blotches of green

and crimson drifted across my eyes. My conductor stopped

suddenly. ‘Home!’ said he, and I stood in a floor of a chasm

that was at first absolutely dark to me. I heard some strange

noises, and thrust the knuckles of my left hand into my

eyes. I became aware of a disagreeable odor, like that of a

monkey’s cage ill-cleaned. Beyond, the rock opened again

upon a gradual slope of sunlit greenery, and on either hand

the light smote down through narrow ways into the central

gloom."