. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . says: TheIndian, poor child of nature, a pagan suckled in a creedoutworn, stood afar off andworshiped toward these holyhills, but the white manclambers gayly up theirsides, guide book in hand,and leaves his sardine boxand egg shells, and likelyenough his business card,at the top. This is trueenough of many a tourist,but the real child of his color or creed,worships still. Of course there were sunrises andsunsets that defied anything like anadequate description, but one sunset,in particular, was so un
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . says: TheIndian, poor child of nature, a pagan suckled in a creedoutworn, stood afar off andworshiped toward these holyhills, but the white manclambers gayly up theirsides, guide book in hand,and leaves his sardine boxand egg shells, and likelyenough his business card,at the top. This is trueenough of many a tourist,but the real child of his color or creed,worships still. Of course there were sunrises andsunsets that defied anything like anadequate description, but one sunset,in particular, was so unique, an at-tempt will be made to give some ideaof it. A thin vapor, close by, but be-tween us and the sun, reflected rain-bow tints, as though the hand of myriads of gorgeous rainbows, ofwhich the wind made havoc, sepa-rating them from time to time intotongues of red, yellow, green, andblue flame, and hustling them pastso quickly only shifting glimpses ofthe foothills and valleys could beseen between. Through the vapor, at times, thesun looked as flat as a plate, and as h. i • - • . % ml ... :? . . :..- A SVe leton on the Path to Job;;di nks Ra devoid of interest as a round piece ofyellow paper plastered on a wall, butas it neared the horizon, on a luridbackground of magenta sky, it peepedfrom behind narrow bands of darkclouds like a face through prisonbars. In all these studies of nature wehad become more and more familiarthe Divine Artist had woven together with the mountains and toward the 2o6 A TIP-TOP EXPERIENCE ON MOOSILAUKM. - i F-3 Ii je Road, Tiueo Fourths o! a Mile from the Summit. close of our stay we gave one dayto learning their names. The taskseemed almost hopeless as we lookedupon tier after tier climbing skywardon every hand. It had taken several days to realizethe distance of the horizon, especiallythe sweep from northwest along thewest and south as far as the south-east, where several of the peaks wereone hundred miles away and a fewat even a greater dist
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