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From rock & crevice the pine & poplar bring their [branches] over the water. Not even the Ind [Indian] with all his [ ] & instinct for direction can find his way thro its blinding maze. Woe betide the wretched man who at such a time finds himself alone upon the prairie without fire or the means of making it not even the shipwrecked sailor clinging to the floating mast is in a more pitiable strait [Pursued] for [beef] for sport for the pastimes of his death Buffalo The bright colored lances of the Aurora
( In “Farthest North) (& First crossing of Aurora (Nansen) (Greenland) “Glorious show of northern lights in the southern sky—great billows of light rolled backwards & forwards in long undulating streams. The flickering of the rays & their restless chase to & fro suggested crowds of combatants armed with flaming spears now retiring & new rushing to the onset, while suddenly as if at given signals huge volleys of missiles were discharged. These flew like a shower of fiery darts—all directed at the same point—near the zenith. The Eskimo have a pretty legend of the northern lights, & believe them to be the souls of dead children playing at ball in heaven” “Compensation in the wonderful features of the sky. When the everchanging northern lights
Date Original
1873
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10 x 16.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel24Journal01P38-39.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
