Presently the warriors entered the station to smoke and tacitly beg for broken victuals. In the evening, as Mrs. Dana, her husband, and that i were sitting outside the station, two of the warriors got here and positioned themselves without ceremony upon the closest stones. The very notion that two men could be weak and intimate with each other and maintain their masculinity negates the core conceptions of American masculinity that the Hollywood Cowboy ingrained in society. We “staid a bit” there, however found few inducements to waste our time. Such is the voyageur of books: I can only speak of him as I discovered him, a lazy dog, somewhat shy and proud, much addicted to loafing and to holding cabarets, as a result of, as the old phrase is, the cabarets keep him-in idleness too. Now if you have no family, no buddies, no pets, no job, and can arrange issues in order that nobody even notices that you’ve gone, then you can name your suicide “victimless” however not in any other case. It is well ascended on the northern side and the southeastern nook, and lots of climb its rugged flanks for a peculiarly Anglo-American purpose-Smith and Brown have held excessive jinks here. I might right here remark that the aut Cæsar aut diabolus of the medieval European antiquary, when accounting for the architecture of strange locations, is within the Far West consigned without partnership to the genius loci, the fiend who, here as in Europe, has monopolized all the best options of scenery.
I will right here take the liberty of digressing slightly, with the charitable purpose of admiring the severe turn with which the United States explorers perform their explorations. We had traced his course upward, by way of its numerous phases and vicissitudes, from the dignity and portliness of his later profession as a full-grown river to his small and humble youth as a mountain rivulet, and-interest, both in man or stream, typically outcomes from the difficulty we take about them-I seemed upon him for the last time with a feeling akin to remorse. Not a man saluted Lieutenant Dana, although he was in uniform, and all looked surly as Indians after a scalpless raid. 1185. The caseworker examined Justin, assessed the dwelling quarters, and told Ms. Norris that all the pieces looked effective and that she ought to don’t have anything to fret about. The water was unusually good at Willow Springs; sadly, however, there was nothing else. The valley was charming with its bright glad green, a tapestry of flowery grass, willow copses where the grouse ran in and out, and long traces of aspen, beech, and cotton-wood, while pine and cedar, cypress and scattered evergreens, crept up the cranks and crannies of the rocks.
He followed us for some distance, honoring us by riding close to the carriage, in hopes of somewhat black-mail; however we were not generous, and we afterward heard one thing which made us glad that we had not been tempted to liberality. In elements they are primary, principally syenite and granite, with somewhat gneiss, but they’ve often so common a line of cleavage, perpendicular as well as horizontal, that they might readily be mistaken for stratifications. It is a jagged, broken ridge of big sandstone boulders, tilted up edgeways, and running in a line over the crest of a protracted roll of land: the tout ensemble appears to be like just like the vertebra of some nice sea-serpent or different lengthy crawling animal; and, on a nearer view, the a number of items resolve themselves into sphinxes, veiled nuns, Lot’s pillars, and other freakish objects. How does one even get into this line of work? Even a bull or a buffalo’s skull, which, lying upon the road, will entice attention, is made to do obligation at this Poste Restante.
Cattle drinking of the fluid are nearly certain to die; even those who eat of the herbe salée, or salt grass rising upon its borders, and known by its reddish-yellow and typically bluish tinge, will endure from a disease known as the “Alkali,” which not unfrequently kills them. I can’t conclude the quotation, but simply remark that the voyageurs have referred to as her “She.” And each where, in distinction with the deep verdure and the vibrant flowers of the valley, rose the stern types of the frowning rocks, some apparently hanging as if threatening a fall, others balanced upon the slenderest foundations, all cut up and broken as if earthquake-riven, loosely piled into unusual figures, the lion couchant, sugar-loaf, tortoise, and armadillo-not a mile, the truth is, was with out its totem. Speeding merrily along, we had been proven on the proper of the street a ranch belonging to a Canadian, a “mighty imply man,” said the driver, “who onst gin me ole mare’s meat for b’ar.” We have been much shocked by this instance of the terrible depravity of the unregenerate human coronary heart, however our melancholy musings had been presently interrupted by the same youth, who identified on the other aspect of the trail a mass of clay (conglomerate, I presume), called the.