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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 th...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-1578 2023-08-27T04:09:16+02:00 June 1873, Mt. Lyell Studies, Glacier Cañon Erosion Image 21 Muir, John 1873-06-01T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/579 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/1578/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/579 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/1578/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies . All John Muir Journals John Muir journals drawings writings travel journaling naturalist text 1873 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T21:01:08Z 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 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1578/thumbnail.jpg Text eskimo* glacier Greenland University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Greenland Indian |
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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 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1578/thumbnail.jpg |
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