This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...men who rested in the valley below. Slowly and cautiously the islanders advanced toward the bluff. There was no need of caution, for there was no tenant on the hill, living or dead; but as they crowded up from the forest, and looked in one another's faces with doubtful awe, a hundred sea-gulls circled above their heads ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...men who rested in the valley below. Slowly and cautiously the islanders advanced toward the bluff. There was no need of caution, for there was no tenant on the hill, living or dead; but as they crowded up from the forest, and looked in one another's faces with doubtful awe, a hundred sea-gulls circled above their heads with wild screams, and the hoarse voice of the ocean thundered, as of old, below. And the ocean is thundering on the shore with the same deep voice to-day, and the sea-gulls wheel in swift circles above the summit of the bluff. And if you will go at evening to that sacred spot, and lie down on the ground with your ear pressed to the earth, you will hear a wild melody such as you never heard elsewhere, that the Indian warriors fancied was the voice of the brave dead chaunting old songs. I fancy it is the murmur of the sea among the rocks at the base of the hill. It is with great difficulty that I have succeeded in writing so much, for I have been interrupted frequently by calls to other employments. First, there was a walk to the spring. There I bathed my head in the icy water, and was much refreshed thereby. Then there was a gallop along the sands, with a fair lady on the pillion behind me. Then there was a call to the house-top to see the sunset; and then a concert on the front steps, which occupied till nearly midnight, as usual. And now I am finishing this letter somewhere among "the wee hours," the whole household being still, and, I trust, sleeping. I am sure they need sleep, for what with midnight concerts on the front steps and morning baths in the surf, there isn't much rest obtained during the night time. Imagine the astonishment of the Block Islanders the other day at seeing that elegant steamer, the C. Vanderbilt, anchore...
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