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Again the canoes were launched and the wild flotilla glided on its way, now in the shadow of the heights, now on the broad expanse, now among the devious channels of the Narrows, beset with woody islets where the hot air was redolent of the pine, the spruce, and the cedar, till they neared that tragic shore where, in the following century, New England rustics battled the soldiers of Dieskau, where Montcalm planted his batteries, where the red cross waved so long amid the smoke, and where, at length, the summer night was hideous with carnage, and an honored name was stained with a memory of blood.
The education that women for the most part receive develops this disposition of the heart: an education which, instead of elevating the mind and giving it a taste for serious things, narrows it, and accustoms it to feed upon aliments that are trivial and void of consistency.
Proceeding eastward, we next enter a small bay into which descends, over a precipitous ledge of rocks, a river, the outlet of a small lake hidden from view by a narrow belt of timber; then follows a deeper indentation about a mile in length and half a mile in width to near its head, where an island narrows it for a short distance to less than a hundred feet.
Four miles below, the river narrows and presents a grand view of the north entrance of the Highlands, with the Storm King Mountain rising fully one thousand five hundred feet above the tide. Now the Narrows above West Point were entered and the current against a head-wind made the passage unusually exciting.
Want to rustle up something? Or shall we eat at Knapps Narrows? The cruising guide says there's a restaurant there." "Let's eat out," Scotty replied promptly. "I'm sick of my cooking and yours. I'd like some Maryland crab cakes like those we had in Chesapeake City." Rick remembered with pleasure. "Suits me." "Think we'll get to Steve's tonight?" Scotty asked. "I doubt it.
The map doesn't show anything but jungle for about a thousand square miles. Unless there's a secret base somewhere between here and there" he placed his fingers on the map where the Sharkey and Sinclair plantations were marked "I don't see where they could have gone." "Well, that must be the answer, then," sighed the gruff spaceman. "Our alert to the patrol ships in this area narrows it down.
They had now arrived at the dreaded boundary of the habitable world, but the falls were not found to be nearly so formidable as they had been represented; they bore rather the character of narrows than of falls, the channel being confined by rocky ledges and fragments, between which there was only one passage, where the canoes rubbed against the rocks on each side.
But though nobody was to be seen, and the storehouses had all the appearance of being completely abandoned, the voyagers were far too prudent to land for which, indeed, there was no inducement and, having satisfied their curiosity, they wore round and proceeded at once to sea, passing out through the Narrows again just as the sun was setting.
Rachael herself was not too sure of her knowledge of the dangerous channel, although she had crossed it many times with Hamilton; and the mist was floating across to St. Kitts. The hollow boom of the reef seemed so close that she expected to hear teeth in the boat every moment, and she knew that far and wide the narrows bristled.
A queer proceeding very queer. "I little dreamed when I first took up the profession immortalized by Shakespeare, that I would be playing to persons whom I could not see. But it is certainly a wonderful advance." Down the bay, out through the Narrows and so on out to sea passed the Tarsus, carrying the moving picture players.
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