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But when I recalled all I had heard from Moreña, and the stories told me but an hour before by Carera, I thought it extremely probable that it would be, and bitterly regretted that I had not mentioned to the latter Ulloa's name. He would have put me on my guard, and I should not have so fatally committed myself with the posadero. But regrets are useless and worse.
I walked slowly and thought deeply, trying to make out what could be the meaning of the glances which the mention of Señor Ulloa's name had evoked, and there was a nameless something in the posadero's manner I did not like. Besides being cringing, as usual, it was half mocking, half menacing, as if I had said, or he had heard, something that placed me in his power. Yet what could he have heard?
It is simply an optical effect, a variety of the phenomenon called 'anthelia, like Ulloa's Circle and the famous 'Spectre of the Brocken." "Explain it how you will," rejoined Miss Carmichael, "to me it is an emblem of hope. It cheers my heart." "I am very glad to hear it, and I should be very sorry to crush your hopes," said Gazen pleasantly.
To the references given by Peron may be added, Humboldt's Pers. Narr., vol. vi. p. 804; Flinder's Voyage, vol. i. p. 92; Labillardiere, vol. i. p. 287; Ulloa's Voyage; Voyage of the Astrolabe and of the Coquille; Captain King's Survey of Australia, etc.
Creoles are not remarkable for energy, and it was quite possible that Señor Ulloa's fortunes might have suffered as severely from the war as his house had suffered from the earthquake. But when I entered the patio I was more than surprised. The only visible signs of life were lizards, darting in and out of their holes, and a huge rattlesnake sunning himself on the ledge of a broken fountain.
I state this because M. d'Orbigny, in discussing an analogous subject, supposes that I had forgotten that it never rains on this whole line of coast. See Ulloa's "Voyage" volume 2 English Translation page 67 for an account of the muddy streets of Lima, and on the continuance of the mists during the whole winter.
Observa. sobre el Clima de Lima, p. 67. Azara's Travels, vol. i. p. 381. Ulloa's Voyage, vol. ii. p. 28. Burchell's Travels, vol. ii. p. 524. Webster's Description of the Azores, p. 124. Voyage a l'Isle de France par un Officer du Roi, tom. i. p. 248. Description of St. Helena, p. 123.
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