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...where there had been deserts, lush meadows appeared. The emaciated cattle of Santa Elena gorged and fattened. At Talaro, an inland oil settlement which had lain lifeness in January, a network of streams covered the waste land in March, filling the desert and the very village streets with myriad spawn and minnows...
...uncertain whether there is ten pound or fifty on the end of the line, until at last the fish is exhausted. The air is so bracing, though, that one can easily endure the fatigue. In this way we pass up the river, following the fish, Who go up to spawn, and return with them as they go down the stream. Never go fishing alone in this country; it is an art in itself, and one needs a teacher at first. Many of the gentlemen who boast of the salmon they have taken in a season have allowed their guides...
Among the gems of purest lustre to be found in this sparkling brochure, we may quote his playful allusion to the Reverend Theodore Parker as a "spawn of hell"; his tribute to our honored chief-magistrate...