crow-nests

Updated: January 29, 2026

Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half the year, have no victuals but pipe-clay, the whole country being under water?

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh