Outing . ^?- WP ^ r mm - -^«fc w«^^^r~ -n turn Choking steam and fumes through which the author groped climbing to the summit of the new On the Chase for Volcanoes 449 a bluish finger. Thither, and northeast-ward more invisibly, stretched away theweird outlines of the chain: islands bythe hundred, from split pinnacles, dis-integrating Gibraltars, to smooth volcanocones rising 9,000 feet, all snow abovei;8oo, and steaming gently; to unin-habited countries, where alpine aiguilleswere reflected in salt lagoons stiff withsalmon, and for seventy miles at a stretchthe surf beat along black
Outing . ^?- WP ^ r mm - -^«fc w«^^^r~ -n turn Choking steam and fumes through which the author groped climbing to the summit of the new On the Chase for Volcanoes 449 a bluish finger. Thither, and northeast-ward more invisibly, stretched away theweird outlines of the chain: islands bythe hundred, from split pinnacles, dis-integrating Gibraltars, to smooth volcanocones rising 9,000 feet, all snow abovei;8oo, and steaming gently; to unin-habited countries, where alpine aiguilleswere reflected in salt lagoons stiff withsalmon, and for seventy miles at a stretchthe surf beat along black dunes with thehollow resonance of volcanic sand. Infi-nite variety, with the implacable charmof all Pacific islands; yet treeless, game-less, desolate, melancholy, with all themagic of the North! The cruise was just beginning. I hadyet to know the hermit of Unimak Island,who, with his kid fourteen years old,patrolled forty miles of beach in mid-winterblizzards, to club sea-otter overpoweredby the surf; to discover the great Okmokcrater; climb Mt. Vsevidov, that moreperfect Fujiama, while the lay-reader ofthe Nikolski Greek Church deserted
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