ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter X of Ada Reis, Volume II. Condulmar addressed himself to Ada Reis, and proposed that before it was too late, they should fly to Callao. Arrived at Callao, they found the scene there, if possible, more terrific than at Lima. Never had the sun arisen upon greater calamity. The whole population of the place were assembled upon the beach; parents clasping their children, and husbands their wives, and all invoking Heaven for mercy and compassion. Ada Reis was struck to the earth, amidst the fragments of the mansion, in which he had sought for refuge; yet a preternatural power seemed to support him. As soon as he could again rise, he rushed forward, and was carried by the whirlwind far out into the sea.
