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Clarence King. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Table of Contents
I. THE RANGE
II. THROUGH THE FOREST. 1864
III. THE ASCENT OF MOUNT TYNDALL. 1864
IV. THE DESCENT OF MOUNT TYNDALL. 1864
V. THE NEWTYS OF PIKE. 1864
VI. KAWEAH’S RUN. 1864
VII. AROUND YOSEMITE WALLS. 1864
VIII. A SIERRA STORM
IX. MERCED RAMBLINGS. 1866
X. CUT-OFF COPPLES’S. 1870
XI. SHASTA. 1870
XII. SHASTA FLANKS. 1870
XIII. MOUNT WHITNEY. 1871
1873
XIV. THE PEOPLE
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Clarence King
Published by Good Press, 2019
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By and by we plunged into the pool, which was perhaps thirty feet long, and deep enough to give us a pleasant swim. The water being almost blood-warm, we absorbed it in every pore, dilated like sponges, and came out refreshed.
It is well worth having one’s juices broiled out by a desert sun just to experience the renewal of life from a mild parboil. That About’s “Man with the Broken Ear,” under this same aqueous renovation, was ready to fall in love with his granddaughter, no longer appears to me odd. Our oasis spread out its disc of delicate green, sharply defined upon the enamel-like desert which stretched away for leagues, simple, unbroken, pathetic. Near the eastern edge of this garden, whose whole surface covered hardly more than an acre, rose two palms, interlocking their cool, dark foliage over the pool of pure water. A low, deserted cabin with wide, overhanging, flat roof, which had long ago been thatched with palm-leaves, stood close by the trees.
