Travellers' TalesT.Nelson and Sons, 1875 |
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Page 134 - ... able to knock a little sense into that hard head and jealous-mad heart of yours ! " So saying, the Corporal turned away, and going back into the road, told Giulia that Beppo had escaped safe and sound to the other side of the river by taking such a jump as no man ever took before ; and that they had nothing for it but to return by the way they had come, and hope for better luck another time. He admitted that, fearing they might possibly miss their object by waiting till the time named in the...
Page 219 - They are low, being only of one story, and, the roofs, are made of light rafters laid from one wall to another, and covered with thin tiles.
Page 185 - Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, Little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum.
Page 167 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common...
Page 161 - ... surrounded by nets, on the shore of Normandy. He saw a score of gurnards closing their fins against their sides, like the wings of a fly in repose, and, without any movement of their tails, walking along the bottom by means of six free rays, three on each pectoral fin, which they placed successively on the ground. They moved rapidly forwards, backwards, to the right and left, groping in all directions with these rays, as if in search of small crabs. Their great heads and bodies seemed to throw...
Page 155 - ... it ; and I felt that I could understand something VIEW IN THE HIMALAYAS. of the enthusiasm of a devout Hindoo under such circumstances. Gangootree itself is situated in a glen of the deepest solitude, and for the last two miles the way thither is most rugged and difficult. Considerable distances had to be traversed over projecting masses of rough stones, flinty, pointed, and many of them loose. In other places horrid chasms had to be crossed on some frail spar flung across. Then the face of the...
Page 118 - Their marchings and counter-marchings are said to remind the observer of the manœuvres of soldiers on parade. In the midst of this apparent order there appears to be, according to the same accounts, not very good government, for the stronger species steal the eggs of the weaker, if they are left unguarded...
Page 26 - that it must be a dream, when I beheld beneath my feet those majestic needles, Le Midi, L'Argentiere, and Le Geant, whose bases I had so long found difficult and dangerous of access. I seized on their bearing one to another, their connection, their structure ; and one glance removed all those doubts which years of labour had not been able to clear up.
Page 204 - ... only a few shops which furnish the monasteries with cloth, shoes, watches, wooden clocks, and other articles; and the few luxuries allowed to the monks of the Holy mountain, such as coffee, sugar, tobaqco, snuff, and cordials. Every Saturday a bazar or market is held here, to which the hermits repair in order to sell what they have manufactured in their solitary huts.