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Every spear of grass was destroyed, and the wheat and rye fields were terribly cut up. We passed a large crag where myriads of starlings had built their nests, and every starling had a grasshopper in his mouth. We crossed the river, in order to pass a narrow defile, by which it forces its way through the rocky heights of Dumanidj Dagh.
He says "The flies were still about us in persecuting myriads; . . . the country was, quite open, rolling along in ceaseless undulations of sand, the only vegetation besides the ever-abounding spinifex was a few bloodwood trees. The region is so desolate that it is horrifying even to describe.
Another weed known as velp, with leaves four feet long, buried in the coral concretions, hung at the bottom. It served as nest and food for myriads of crustacea and molluscs, crabs, and cuttlefish. There seals and otters had splendid repasts, eating the flesh of fish with sea-vegetables, according to the English fashion.
The sides appeared smooth and even to the top, which was covered with verdure, and was so far above us that the sea-birds, which in myriads screamed around it, were scarcely visible two-thirds of the way up.
Chastened by contemplation of levelling mortality, awed into truth by the spectacle of a whole world made kin by that icy touch of nature, the belated soul seeks refuge in a final justice which excludes from natural heirship to the external home not one of earth's weary myriads.
Is that your sister's home?" "Yes, we live there no one but Lucy and myself; that is to say, except one single servant reserved from the estate." "Roseville?" murmured Hoffland; "I think I have passed it." "Very probably; it is just yonder, beyond the woods a cottage embosomed in trees, and with myriads of roses around it, which Lucy takes great pleasure in cultivating."
The great inland plains are the haunt of the flock-pigeon; in countless myriads, these beautiful birds come at some seasons of the year, and in the morning when flying in to the water they look like distant clouds. The fish of the tableland differ greatly from those of the coast.
Many men fancy that the slight injuries done by each single act of intemperance, are like the glomeration of moonbeams upon moonbeams myriads will not amount to a positive value.
We are indebted to it for every drop of water distributed over our hills, plains, and valleys; for from the ocean it has arisen by evaporation to return again through myriads of channels. It is really a misnomer to speak of the sea as a desert waste; it is teeming with inexhaustible animal and vegetable life.
Ducks, geese, and other waterfowl, came in myriads with the spring. They fed on the fat of the land. Summer advanced, and game became less plentiful; still, there was more than sufficient to supply them with abundance of food. Autumn approached; the wild fowl that had passed northward in spring, began to return southward, and again the wants of the young wanderers were superabundantly supplied.
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