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He wrote home that he could not work without system, and, a little later, that he was going to leave Keokuk, that, in fact, he was planning a great adventure a trip to the upper Amazon! His interest in the Amazon had been awakened by a book. Lynch and Herndon had surveyed the upper river, and Lieutenant Herndon's book was widely read.
"You're all right?" Herndon's voice inquired anxiously. "We've got that steward and the other fellows all right." "Yes, come on," shouted Craig. "The cutter has made a capture." We had reached the stern of the ship, and far out in the river the Mohican was now headed toward us.
Other phases of the shadowy side of his character also asserted themselves. Conspicuous was a certain trend in his thinking that was part of Herndon's warrant for calling him a fatalist. Lincoln's mysticism very early had taken a turn toward predestination, coupled with a belief in dreams.
Conny was drawling in her treble note, "She made a great sensation in Herndon's piece over in London." ... And Isabelle was conscious that she was sitting alone at the hotel table, staring into vacancy, with a waiter impatiently eying the coin in her hand.... She had looked at him for half an hour, not knowing him!
It seemed to me that Edith Herndon's cry was repeated again and again as the natives dragged me at a jog trot through the undergrowth. There was untold anguish in the cry.
What tells you the thing must be rooted out? 'I feel it in my bones, was Herndon's emphatic answer. 'This continent is not broad enough to endure the contest between freedom and slavery! It was almost in these very words that Lincoln afterwards opened the great contest with Douglas.
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