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CHAPTER XXXVI — The Parki Gives Up The Ghost
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A long calm in the boat, and now, God help us, another in the brigantine. It was airless and profound.
In that hot calm, we lay fixed1 and frozen in like Parry at the Pole. The sun played upon the glassy sea like the sun upon the glaciers2.
At the end of two days we lifted up our eyes and beheld3 a low, creeping, hungry cloud expanding like an army, wing and wing, along the eastern horizon. Instantly Jarl bode5 me take heed6.
Here be it said, that though for weeks and weeks reign7 over the equatorial latitudes8 of the Pacific, the mildest and sunniest of days; that nevertheless, when storms do come, they come in their strength: spending in a few, brief blasts their concentrated rage. They come like the Mamelukes: they charge, and away.
It wanted full an hour to sunset; but the sun was well nigh obscured. It seemed toiling9 among bleak10 Scythian steeps in the hazy11 background. Above the storm-cloud flitted ominous12 patches of scud13, rapidly advancing and receding14: Attila's skirmishers, thrown forward in the van of his Huns. Beneath, a fitful shadow slid along the surface. As we gazed, the cloud came nearer; accelerating its approach.
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冰河,冰川( glacier的名词复数 ) | |
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latitudes
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