Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 311
like atunnel. The gardener told us about a strange idolthat was worshiped with divine honors by the paganaborigines. It was made of a kind of grayish-white stone, that looked like quartz in day-time,but became luminous after dark, and was supposedto be a supernatural image of the moon. Whenthe… … yamo, theriver makes a wide bend to the left; but our road ~. went straight ahead, and ledus through a wild hill-country, fullof ravines and thorny thickets. Far-ther back, the hills expanded into grassy slopes,and on one of these pastures we saw a queer littlewindmill whirling in the breeze. It…
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