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No doubt it was buried deep in one of the many sandhills which these terrific winds leave behind them. Camels It was not till next morning that the boys saw that the tornado had completely upset their plans. During the few terrible minutes of the storm, and for an hour afterwards, till sleep finally claimed them again, excitement drove all thoughts of the future clean away.
Travelling due West across the creek on which we were camped, they found a large clay-pan, and were then hourly expecting to cross the Sutherland Range. However, no range was seen, only high sandhills. That Breaden's reckoning was correct was soon proved, for he and I walked from our camp and six miles West found the big clay-pan and their camel tracks.
All this while we saw no more of the natives, but saw some of the smokes of some of their fires at 2 or 3 miles distance. The land hereabouts was much like the part of New Holland that I formerly described, it is low but seemingly barricaded with a long chain of sandhills to the sea, that lets nothing be seen of what is farther within land.
It had to go slow, the coach had that was a powerful mean road after you left Pojuaque and got in among the sandhills and you never was sure when some of them bunches of scrub-cedar wasn't going to wake up and take to pumping lead into you.
The whole country is covered with spinifex in every direction, and this, together with the poisonous bushes and a few blood-wood-trees, forms the only vegetation. The pendulous fringe instead of leaves on the poison bush gives it a strange and weird appearance, and to us it always presents the hideous, and terrible form of a deadly Upas-tree. Farther into the desert. Sandhills crowned with stones.
The cross on the summit of Lone Mountain, erected by the Franciscan friars, is quite impressive from its height and size. It is seen from all parts of the city. The fathers displayed their customary shrewdness in the selection of this situation. The bleak sandhills to the north they left for the future city, and settled themselves in this pleasant valley.
She looked at me so deep ah, I cannot tell how! then stooped and kissed me between the eyes I have never forgot. I struck Tophet, and she was gone to her happiness; for before 'lights out! she reached the Fort and her lover's arms. "But I stood looking back on the Jumping Sandhills.
I can't get across the river the water's nigh ower my head as 'tis, an' my feet keep sinkin' into the mud." Almost before he had ceased speaking Jinny had turned and was staggering with trembling limbs towards the sandhills. How should she get help in time? There was no habitation within a mile at least, and the water was rising moment by moment.
For background the long straggling town; in the foreground the motley groups of bathers, the far-reaching smooth surface of the lake; and, beyond, the broad Atlantic, thundering impotently upon the barricade of sandhills that makes possible the peace of Arcachon. Like all watering-places, Arcachon lives two lives.
That flank of the place which it presented to the sandhills across the Urumea was clearly more vulnerable, and yet not easily vulnerable. Deep water and natural rock protected Mount Orgullo, the citadel hill. The sea-wall, for almost half its length, formed but a fausse braye for the hornwork towering formidably behind it.
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