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Page 215 - All experience is an arch where thro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. TENNYSON.
Page 40 - became clouded all over, the wind rose, and we entered upon a large tract of exceedingly soft snow, which could not be traversed in the ordinary way, and it was found necessary to flog every yard of it down and then to crawl over it on all fours.
Page 329 - Arriving at the verge Of a dim umbrage hoar, such as is seen, Beneath green leaves and gloomy branches, oft To ovcrbrow a bleak and alpine cliff.
Page 213 - right ahead as if it interposed no obstacle. We shouted to it, but it scarcely deigned to notice us, and only just turned its head aside for a moment and went straight on and vanished in a thicket of scrub. Tracks of wild animals were more numerous than ever here, and afforded us some assistance, as
Page 205 - who was assisted by a second mule-driver of a jovial temperament, much given to strong waters, and by a very willing and pleasant-tempered native, David Beltran. These three men came from Machachi, and formed an excellent working team. Four beasts were taken for riding and four
Page 212 - make any use of our machetas, for it would have taken several weeks' labour of our whole party to have cleared a track over a single mile. The only way of getting through
Page 212 - sodden materials. For me the men constructed a sort of floating bed, cutting down the reeds, and crossing and recrossing them, piling them up until they no longer
Page 211 - out a vague something in the clouds, which he said was Sara-urcu ; but we did not see it until several days afterwards, and then it appeared only for a few seconds, just long enough
Page 381 - Ac velut ille canum morsu de montibus altis Actus aper, multos Vesulus quern pinifer annos Defendit.
Page 212 - falling, rendering it well-nigh impossible to keep up a fire out of the sodden materials. For me the men constructed a sort of floating bed, cutting down