This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill old eternity Old Eternity was a mystery--a fascinating but inscrutable mystery. What was his real name? Where did he come from? How did he live? And why had he taken up his abode in this outlandish place? These were the questions that stared me in the face when I first met him on that remote New ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill old eternity Old Eternity was a mystery--a fascinating but inscrutable mystery. What was his real name? Where did he come from? How did he live? And why had he taken up his abode in this outlandish place? These were the questions that stared me in the face when I first met him on that remote New Zealand hillside; and they were still unanswered when I looked on his quaint misshapen form for the last time. It is many a long year since I was in that wild romantic country. I am told that the Piripiki Gorge is now a popular holiday resort, with hotels, boarding-houses, and all the rest of it. Tourists throng to it from every town and city in the island. Steamers ply up and down the river daily with passengers and mails; and, from their decks, you see pleasure boats, containing parties of happy picnickers, darting in and out of all the coves and gullies down the gorge. I shudder to think of it. I am wicked, I know. It is by just such sacrileges and desecrations that humanity comes to its own. It is all a mark of progress. The world is getting on! It is good that cities should spring up in the wilderness. But political economy is a poor balm for a sore heart. It brings me no comfort. When I revisit New Zealand, as I hope to do, nothing shall induce me to return to Piripiki Gorge. I could not bear it. For me its glory has forever departed. When we first went there it was a vast, unbroken solitude. We had to arrange as best we could for the conveyance of our belongings and ourselves through that ten-mile gorge to the mouth of the river. And what a waterway it was! I have seen nothing on earth like it. Far as the eye can reach in every direction the mountainous peaks lift their massive heads to the blue, blue skies. The great green slopes...
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