Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 158
ever guesswhat the real and practically the only occupa-tion of these out-of-the-world people is, so Iwill tell you at once. It is boat-building! Think of it! — boats built in a crater a thou-sand feet above the sea, in a place to be reachedonly by a hard climb up the narrowest of steepstone… … THE LANDING-PLACE, AND THE LADDER OF EIGHT HUNDRED STEPS. not bother themselves about getting their littlecraft down the stairs or ravine. When the boatis finished they haul it to the brink of the preci-pice : and when all is ready, and the sea smoothand favorable, they calmly lower it over…
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