Half the sky was chequered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear: in the lightning flashes it looked like deep blue water, with the sheen of moonlight on it; and the mottled part of the sky was like marble pavement, like the quay of some splendid
seacoast city, doomed to destruction.
The tribe to which he belonged roamed a tract extending, roughly, twenty-five miles along the
seacoast and some fifty miles inland.
Each of us has formed a mental picture of the Capronian
seacoast from Bowen's manuscript, and it is not likely that any two of these pictures resemble each other, or that any of them resemble the coast as we shall presently find it.
"You have money, and can buy the means of travelling to the
seacoast as quickly as the journey can be made.
"That is plain speaking," said Sancho; "but let your worship take care to choose it on the
seacoast, so that if I don't like the life, I may be able to ship off my black vassals and deal with them as I have said; don't mind going to see my lady Dulcinea now, but go and kill this giant and let us finish off this business; for by God it strikes me it will be one of great honour and great profit."
The location of Anoroc, the Mountains of the Clouds, the river, and the strip of
seacoast were all familiar to him.
Further south, among the bold precipices at the head of Port Desire, the condor is not uncommon; yet only a few stragglers occasionally visit the
seacoast. A line of cliff near the mouth of the Santa Cruz i frequented by these birds, and about eighty miles up th river, where the sides of the valley are formed by stee basaltic precipices, the condor reappears.
At the same time they furnished his regained humanity with some decent clothing, and put heart into the new man by the information that the
seacoast of the Pacific was only a very few miles away.
Near the western extremity, where Fort Moultrie stands, and where are some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may be found, indeed, the bristly palmetto; but the whole island, with the exception of this western point, and a line of hard, white beach on the
seacoast, is covered with a dense undergrowth of the sweet myrtle, so much prized by the horticulturists of England.
The
seacoasts are full of these little village tragedies - real tragedies, too, however insignificant they may seem to us."
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