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. 1875 Excerpt: ...I recounted this fable to Jimmy, telling him that we should visit this spring during the day, where he would be required to renew his vow. To my great amusement he flatly and persistently refused to have anything to do "wid the divilish wather." A ride of a couple of hours through the valley of the Pescado, and we ...
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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. 1875 Excerpt: ...I recounted this fable to Jimmy, telling him that we should visit this spring during the day, where he would be required to renew his vow. To my great amusement he flatly and persistently refused to have anything to do "wid the divilish wather." A ride of a couple of hours through the valley of the Pescado, and we merged into that of the Rio de Zuni, a valley dreary and desolate enough to dampen the ardour of the most enthusiastic searcher for knowledge; and yet, perhaps, the most fertile of all the valleys lying west of the Eio Grander HE valley of the Eio de Zuni, with its lofty cliffs of black metamorphic rock, --some of which, separated from the great mass, rise high in air like the huge chimneys of a vast. manufacturing establishment, --presents a most sombre and gloomy appearance. Notwithstanding its forbidding aspect, no valley is to be found between the waters of the Eio Grande and the Pacific coast more fertile, or with climate better adapted for purposes of agriculture than is this in which is found the pueblo of Zuni. Here for the first time we caught sight of the town, distant about four miles, situated upon an eminence near the upper end of the valley, and which really presented, as Jimmy expressed it, "a strange resimblince to the moighty castles ov ould Ireland." We had not proceeded far in the direction of the town before we discovered some of the inhabitants driving towards the pueblo a number of buros (small jackasses), laden with wood, or with panniers filled with vegetables. This wood is obtained from the mountains; nor is it an uncommon thing to bring it twelve or fourteen miles tied upon the backs of these hardy little animals. The vegetables are raised in large quantities in the fine arable land with which the town i...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Limited to 1500 copies. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images are unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light general handling, clipped, in a mylar cover. 540pp.
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