Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ere soon to be invaded.They, too, swelled the chorus with their cries, and ere long all Nature wasawake. The last to receive the message of the morning was the great canonof Palo Santo, which ran down the mountain-side towards the coast. Aboveits highest walls the forest trees crowded together and peered over them intothe profound abyss but as it broadened out and the walls fell down lower andlower, the trees fled away, fearful perhaps of being engulfed and carried offby the stream that roared round the rocks in the chasm. The suns rays fellslantwise across the canon, illuming its western wall, but leaving the easternin deepest shadow. The agaves on the western brink were changed to glisten-ing candelabra, with their branching spikes of blossoms; the gray cacti showedall their fluted columns, the prickly pears their crimson flowers. Steadilycrept the shadow of the eastern down the western wall, as the sunbeamssearched for the foaming waters of the stream within the chasm. The trumpet-
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BALCONIES OF GRANADA. ON THE WAY TO GRANADA, 227 trees, with great leaves of green and silver, were quickened into life again, andtremulously shook off their burden of pearly dewdrops upon the orchidsand the dank earth underneath. Just where the crowns of the trumpet-trees reached the summit platformof one of the lower cliffs a broad ledge jutted from it, overarched by impend-ing rock. Here, sheltered from observation by protecting rock and trees,reposed a little hut of clay, built like a swallows nest against the wall. Itsonly aperture, the doorway, opened eastward, and its occupants were earlyawake, to receive the first glow from the sky. They were two in number, — anold man and a boy, whose complexions of golden bronze showed the nobleIndian blood of the ancient tribe of the Totonacas. The boy was the firstto emerge, drawing about him a coarse woollen sarapito (or Mexican blanket),his only other garment being his white cotton pantaloons. His face was brightas the sun that shone a

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