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Doubling on the pursuers, hiding, the bandit whirls from Shasta to Tehama, from Oroville to Sacramento, from Marysville to Placerville. Stockton, San Andreas, Sonora, and Mariposa are terrorized. Plundered pack-trains, murdered men, and robbed wayfarers prove that Joaquin Murieta is ever at work. His swoop is unerring.
It grows to a height of fifty to one hundred and fifty feet, with a strongly conical trunk, very thick at the base, and gradually diminishing in size upward. The bark is thick, red-brown, loose and fibrous, and when the tree is old, broken into prominent heavy longitudinal furrows. The cones are red-brown, oblong-ovate when closed, three-fourths to an inch long. Shasta Fir.
"Sergeant!" The sharp snap of his voice brought that officer forward on the run. "Where are the men?" "Playin' ball, most of 'em, sir, just beyond the ridge." "Are the horses out in herd?" "Yes, sir." "Sound the recall; arm and mount every man; bring them into Glencaid on the gallop. Do you know the old Shasta mine?" "No, sir." "Half-way up the hill back of the hotel.
"Why do you call him Shasta? Where did you hear that name?" "The only word I have heard him speak sounded like that, and I do not know of any better name. Can you think of one?" "No; that is good enough; let him be called Shasta, then. There may be a greater Providence in our coming upon this island than we imagine."
But look well to your footing, for the way will test the skill of the most cautious mountaineers. Regaining the low ground at the base of the mountain and holding on in your grand orbit, you pass through a belt of juniper woods, called "The Cedars," to Sheep Rock at the foot of the Shasta Pass.
Howard spoke sharply to Terror, but he paid no heed to the call. The boy repeated it with the same uselessness, and he was beginning to become seriously alarmed for his fate when Shasta laid down his pipe and rose to his feet. The eyes of the three were now centered upon him. The Pah Utah left his gun and blanket upon the ground, so that his arms and breast, excepting a few ornaments, were bare.
Just as the sun sank out of sight, we reached a lofty commanding ridge, stopped to rest, turned around and saw Shasta looming grandly up out of the valley-twilight, his icy forehead all one mass of gold and ruby fire.
Tim now gave an account of his adventures in his hunt after the deer, previous to when he was first seen from the island. When he had finished Elwood asked: "Are we to stay here over night?" "I think not, but I defers to the judgment of Mr. Shasta. It's just as he says about it." "He appears to be taken up with something over yonder."
The range of this tree is almost identical with that of the Shasta fir, though here and there it is found at as low an altitude as 4500 feet. It loves the margins of creeks, glades and lakes situated at altitudes of 6000 feet and upward, where it usually forms a fringe of nearly pure growth in the wet and swampy portions of the ground.
The view from the summit in clear weather extends to an immense distance in every direction. Southeastward, the low volcanic portion of the Sierra is seen like a map, both flanks as well as the crater-dotted axis, as far as Lassen's Butte , a prominent landmark and an old volcano like Shasta, between ten and eleven thousand feet high, and distant about sixty miles.
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