The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . wona, through which the stage drives, the openingbeing 27 ft. deep and 10 ft. square, as shown in Fig. 83, while the treeflourishes green above ones head, maintaining as much apparent indifferenceto this excavation as a man would make to a piece of skin knocked off hisknuckle. There are seven trees which range from 250 ft. to 272 ft. inheight, and ten from 220 ft. to 250 ft. The absence of young trees is caused by the fact that it takes the conesholding the seeds some four years to mature, and the chances against theirpreservation from animals and st
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . wona, through which the stage drives, the openingbeing 27 ft. deep and 10 ft. square, as shown in Fig. 83, while the treeflourishes green above ones head, maintaining as much apparent indifferenceto this excavation as a man would make to a piece of skin knocked off hisknuckle. There are seven trees which range from 250 ft. to 272 ft. inheight, and ten from 220 ft. to 250 ft. The absence of young trees is caused by the fact that it takes the conesholding the seeds some four years to mature, and the chances against theirpreservation from animals and storms are very small, so that it would seem 122 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. to be only a question of time when this species becomes extinct. This15-mile drive was concluded in time for supper, and the next day we startedfor Raymond. The road lay through woods full of wild flowers, and wascool and shady. At the summit of a hill we saw an old man with a longwhite beard and long silvery hair making his morning ablution? in a tin. Fig. 83. The Wawona Sequoia Gigantea wash-basin. He bowed gravely to us as we passed along, and we were toldthat he was the hermit of the Yosemite, who has lived in a log cabin for30 years or more. The mystery of this is unexplained, and while the oldman, who must be upwards of 80, is pleasant enough, yet nothing willinduce him to break away from this solitude. The driver informed us thathe had never seen a railroad, and that he had tried in vain to induce him totake a seat in the stage, when a few hours woald put him in Raymond. The Benicia Train Ferry. 123 The ODly enjoyment he permitted himself was to occasionally go to asettlement and sell his produce. Having done this, and procured a jugof whisky, he would return to his cabin, and, in the drivers language, enjoy a high old lonesome. That night we were in Raymond in time forsupper, and, finding our familiar sleeping car and our own porter, we weresoon speeding for San Francisco. Nothing
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