The book of the fair; an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 (1893)
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago, San Francisco, The Bancroft Co. · leaf 57
d ploughed fields, its dark masses of forest, scaling the steep inclines; its cowboys, its herds of cattle white and red; its parti-coloured goats, all basking in the sun; on the right, opening out like a bottomless abyss, the sterner valley of Lauterbrunnen, with the Staubbach and the White… … is the figure of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, its pose suggested by the A TURK IN COSTUME well-known legend of a race wherein the goddess, being worsted by a native prince, pursued him in a chariot of molten lava, hurling fire-brands after him as he sought refuge in the sea. Circling the…
