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Title: On and off the saddle : characteristic sights and scenes from the great Northwest to the Antilles
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Rutgers, Lispenard, -1932
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Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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same time caressing the animal bypatting him on the forehead, and whileshe sang the suffering monarch kneeledat her feet. Then she stooped andgently removed the cruel banderillos^after which, with her arms around * ElMorons neck, she led him toward thegate of the torriL 165 a 1Rocfti?*flDountaln BMcture. Winter Scenes among the Glaciers of theSelkirks in British Columbia, THE mad torrent, swollen by thesnows of a thousand hills,sweeps down with turbid waves, like afalling ocean, in a mass of milk-likefoam, tossing about with impetuousforce great cakes of ice and heavy logs,shooting them through the rocky cleftsas though urged on by demon hands. The falling snow, lashed into fury bythe rude wind, drifts into fantastic formsas it lodges on decayed stumps of oldtrees and on the jagged rocks, whilehuge dome-like piles of snow constantlyconfront us, rendering our task of travelnot an easy one. The great forest oftrees, many of mammoth proportions,are clothed from root to branches with i66
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A Rocky-Mountain Picture a veneering of glistening ice, producingan effect of startling beauty. As we work our way up the narrowcanons, cut like enormous trenchesthrough the solid rock—oftentimeswading neck-deep through the softsnow—icicles of gigantic proportions,like inverted church steeples, hang fromdizzy heights above us. Occasionally athrilling sound falls on the ear, as oneof these monsters, unable to sustain itsown great weight, breaks from its place,and plunges into unknown depths,bearing with it everything it touches,the great rocks about us serving as somany sounding-boards to intensify thesound. Ascending some of the higher points,vast snow-fields are before us, peak afterpeak rears its white head far in thedistance, deep black gorges frown intheir ugliness near by. About us standthe mountains in their majestic holystillness, held in the relentless embrace167 A Rocky-Mountain Picture of the mighty glaciers. Frequently thedeep thundering sound of an avalancheis heard, a

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