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"As far as I can tell," the captain said, "we have been driven up the bay called the Little Syrtis a place full of shoals and shallows, and abounding with pirates of the worst kind." "Think you that the ship has suffered injury?"
Besides, once when I made a stopover in space, after a nice short hop, I got into trouble. I'll pass this one up. I'd like to talk to Mitch Storey, though." They all tried to reach him, beaming the Survey Station at the edge of Syrtis Major, the great equatorial wedge of blue-green growths on the floor of a vanished ocean, first.
The Oasis of Fezzan Population Ten Districts Their Denomination and Condition Sockna Honn Worm of the Natron Lakes Zoueelah Mixed Race Improvements in Mourzuk Heavy Ottoman Yoke Results of the Census Amount of Revenue Military Force Arab Cavaliers Barracks Method of Recruiting Turkish System superior to French Razzias Population of Mourzuk Annual Market Articles of Traffic Acting-Governor and his Coadjutors Story of a faithless Woman Transit Duties in Fezzan Slave Trade Sulphur in the Syrtis Proposed Colony from Malta.
There were the usual distorted hallucinations of Syrtis Fever. A new strain, I suspect... Four months gone? Oh, no...!" She must have had a time evading his questions for the next month, while she worked, again, in the lab. Maybe he did divine half of the truth, at last. Maybe he even was sympathetic toward the thickets that he was trying to defeat.
And at last they touched the ground, and when daylight came they waded to the shore; and saw nothing round but sand, and desolate salt pools; for they had come to the quicksands of the Syrtis, and the dreary treeless flats, which lie between Numidia and Cyrene, on the burning shore of Africa.
Sometimes, for a moment, he felt hot, and then cold, as if his blood still held a tiny trace of Syrtis Fever. If there was such a thing? No don't start to laugh, he warned himself. Relax. Let the phantoms fade away. Somewhere, that multiple bigness of Nothing, of life and death, of success and unfairness and surprise, must have reality but not here...
That African kingdom extended from the river Molochath to the great Syrtis on the one hand, and to Cyrene and Egypt on the other, and included the greatest part of the ancient Carthaginian territories. Numidia, next to Egypt, was the most important of the Roman client States.
A red rash, with the pattern of frostwork on a Minnesota windowpane in January, was across his lean, handsome face. Maybe he was twenty Nance's age. His bloodshot eyes stared at terrors that no one else could see. Nance called softly through the thin infection barrier. "Jimmy!" He moaned a little. "Francy..." "High fever, Frank," Nance whispered. "Typical Syrtis. He wants to be home with his girl.
There is a wind called Auster, another called Eurus, another called Septentrio, another Meridies, besides Aquilo, Vulturnus, Africus. There are the eight great winds of the classical dictionary, arsenal of mystery and terror and of the unknown, besides the wind Euroaquilo of St. Luke. This is the wind that drives an apostle wishing to gain Crete upon the African Syrtis. If St.
So also might the liquor derived from the sap or honey of the Getulian palm, and the sweet wine, called melilotus, made from the poetical fruit found upon the coast of the Syrtis. He would have been struck, too, with the sweetness of the mutton; but he would have asked what the sheep’s tails were before he tasted them, and found how like marrow the firm substance ate of which they consisted.
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