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The demon of Teneriffe was called Guayota and lived in the peak of Teyde, which was the hell called Echeyde.

I have observed the Pico di Teyde in Teneriffe with no snow upon it in the first days of November, though it is 3000 feet higher than Monte Rotondo, and only five degrees further south.

I examined in detail the layers of which the peak of Teyde is composed.

Perhaps the old crater had been quiescent for thousands of years, and then it worked a little and threw up El Teyde.

I had seen Etna, Vesuvius and Stromboli, but had never yet climbed any volcano until I stood upon the summit of the Peak of Teneriffe, Pico de Teyde, home of the gods and devils as well as of the aboriginal Guanches of the Canary Islands.