deer-water

Updated: July 20, 2025

Ignorant of "optical phenomena," they gazed at this strange illusion, these phantom trees and water, these mocking semblances of cities that vanished as you reached them, with astonishment, and even awe. It struck their imagination, and they gave to it a name scarcely less poetical than the thing: calling it "deer-water," or the "thirst of the antelope." Nor was this all.

F. W. (Francis William) Bain - Bubbles of the Foam