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The Ascent of Mount St. Elias Linda White Mazini Villari,Filippo de Filippi,Vittorio Sella No preview available - 2023 |
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Page 38 - A long time ago the earth sank beneath the water, and the water rose and covered the highest places so that no man could live. It rained so hard that it was as if the sea fell from the sky. All was black, and it became so dark that no man knew another. Then a few people ran here and there and made a raft of cedar logs, but nothing could stand against the white waves, and the raft was broken in two. On one part floated the ancestors of the Thlinkits, on the other the parents of all other nations....
Page 202 - ... he can be called upon to bear in a new land. I refer to the clouds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, accompanied by a vindictive ally in the shape of a small poisonous black fly, under the stress of whose persecution the strongest man with the firmest will must either feel depressed or succumb to low fever. They hold their carnival of human torment from the first growing of spring vegetation in May until it is withered by frosts late in September.
Page 202 - ... progress of the explorer beyond all adequate description, and language is simply unable to portray the misery and annoyance accompanying their presence. It will naturally be asked, How do the natives bear this ? They, too, are annoyed and suffer, but it should be borne in mind that their bodies are...
Page 202 - The traveler who exposes his bare eyes or face here loses his natural appearance; his eyelids swell up and close, and his face becomes one mass of lumps and fiery pimples. Mosquitoes torture the Indian dogs to death, especially if one of these animals, by mange or otherwise, loses an inconsiderable portion of its thick hairy covering, and even drive the bear and the deer into the water.
Page 149 - Lucania," in remembrance of the ship that had brought us to America. West of this new peak, at about the same distance and due north of St. Elias, we descried another great mountain at 326°, which we believed to be identical with the peak christened Mount Bear by Russell in 1891. Finally, to the north-west, some 200 miles off, a conical peak soared up at 311°, apparently of even greater height than the other two. This was christened the "Bona," after a racing yacht then belonging to HRH These three...
Page 38 - Ah-gish-ahn-ahkon is good and strong, so the earth is safe. " Chethl lives in the bird Kunna-Kaht-eth ; his nest is in the top of the mountain, in the hole through which his sister disappeared. " He carries whales in his claws to this eyrie, and there devours them. He swoops from his hiding-place, and rides on the edge of the coming storm. The roaring of the tempest is his voice calling to his sister. He claps his wings in the peals of thunder, and its rumbling is the rustling of his pinions. The...
Page 202 - ... annoyance accompanying their presence. It will naturally be asked how do the natives bear this? They, too, are annoyed and suffer, but it should be borne in mind that their bodies are anointed with rancid oil; and certain ammoniacal vapors, peculiar to their garments from constant wear, have repellant power which even the mosquitoes, bloodthirsty and cruel as they are, are hardly equal to meet.
Page 212 - ... the most part of the body-cavity is filled by unicellular glands (Fig. 11 gl) ; their very thin excretory prolongations form numerous threads directed towards the ventral side, which can be easily followed on the sections to the sides of the ganglion chain. Their thinness and flexuous course make it difficult to follow them to their end on the surface of the skin. I believe that they converge towards the bundles of chaetae of the ventral series. As Mr. Michaelsen writes me, these glands may be...
Page 140 - As soon as we reached the col, we turned eager glances to the new region revealed to us towards the north-west. At our feet we beheld a very extensive level glacier, covered with snow, and with no signs of crevasses; but its eastern and western boundaries were hidden from us by the mountains at either side. Beyond the portion fronting us lay an interminable stretch of snow and ice, an infinite series of low mountain chains bristling with numberless jagged, sharp-pointed and precipitous peaks, where...
Page 202 - ... about their heads and wear mittens in midsummer. The traveler who exposes his bare eyes or face here loses his natural appearance; his eyelids swell up and close, and his face becomes one mass of lumps and fiery pimples. Mosquitoes torture the Indian dogs to death, especially...