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His eldest son and legitimate successor, Lio Lio, or, as the English call it, Rio Rio, for there is some difficulty in distinguishing between the L and the R of the Sandwich Islanders, now assumed the government, under the name of Tameamea the Second.
To the northward, and blocking out any vision of the uplands of Thibet, rises that citadel of porcelain, that gothic pile, the Lio Porgyul, walls, towers, and peaks, a clear twelve thousand feet of veined and splintered rock above the river. And beyond it and eastward and westward rise peaks behind peaks, against the dark blue Himalayan sky.
The moon rose behind the towering screen of dark precipices to the east, and long before it emerged above these, its slanting beams had filled the deep gorges below with luminous mist and turned the towers and pinnacles of Lio Porgyul to a magic dreamcastle of radiance and wonder....
"Did you try him last week, Lionel, as I requested you to do?" asked Douglas, when the merits of the horse had been duly discussed. "I did; and I found him as fine a temper as any horse I ever rode. I rode him twice he is a magnificent animal." "And safe, eh, Lio?" asked Douglas, anxiously.
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