The drama of Saint Helena . SAISIT HELKNA ~ ~~ f Limits assigned to Napoleon S Mil. THE TEDIUM OF SAINT HELENA 125 of narrowness and confinement. With the exceptionof four or five plateaus, there are no wide openspaces, but on all sides sharp lines of heights, scarcelyaffording standing-room, or gullies shutting out thehorizon, in which one is, as it were, walled up. Those who know the country soon tire of walkingover ground so precipitous and yet so uniform incharacter. The fifteen hundred inhabitants of James-town hardly ever left the gorge in which theyvegetated. To scale the steep gradient
The drama of Saint Helena . SAISIT HELKNA ~ ~~ f Limits assigned to Napoleon S Mil. THE TEDIUM OF SAINT HELENA 125 of narrowness and confinement. With the exceptionof four or five plateaus, there are no wide openspaces, but on all sides sharp lines of heights, scarcelyaffording standing-room, or gullies shutting out thehorizon, in which one is, as it were, walled up. Those who know the country soon tire of walkingover ground so precipitous and yet so uniform incharacter. The fifteen hundred inhabitants of James-town hardly ever left the gorge in which theyvegetated. To scale the steep gradients that roseon either side and led to the interior, seemednearly as wearisome to them as a voyage toEngland, and certainly less inviting. The scantygroups of islanders settled outside the capital—aboutthirteen hundred souls—squatting, as a rule, forprotection from the trade-wind, in the hollows ofvalleys only connected with one another by bridlepaths, remained equally sedentary, almost deprivedof social intercourse, and lived a life that was evenmore dreary, torpid, and indif
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