Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in w...hich Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The baggage occupied the middle or widest part of the canoe. We also paddled by turns in the bows, now sitting with our legs exten...ded, now sitting upon our legs, and now rising upon our knees; but I found none of these positions endurable, and was reminded of the complaints of the old Jesuit missionaries of the torture they endured from long confinement in constrained positions in canoes, in their long voyages from Quebec to the Huron country; but afterwards I sat on the cross-bars, or stood up, and experienced no inconvenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have already eaten breakfast to the accompaniment, in our morning newspapers, of too many "Yankee Go Home" signs, too many riot...s, too many denunciations of ourselves, to believe that leadership, even in the cause of peace, can reward us with international laurel wreaths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »