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 1    1,    8|          the ascent of the famous mountain while I am waiting for a
 2    1,    8|           made the ascent of this mountain, and has given a description
 3    1,   10|         coast is sheltered by the mountain range of the Andes. In obedience
 4    1,   10|           gliding gently down the mountain sides, past the Neuquem
 5    1,   12|        difficulties incident to a mountain journey were about to crowd
 6    1,   12|           to cross the top of the mountain chain, and once over, nothing
 7    1,   12|       lead you to the foot of the mountain as straight as the best
 8    1,   12|          into the interior of the mountain when he saw how exhausted
 9    1,   13|        the volcano of Antuco. The mountain roared like some enormous
10    1,   13|         in which fragments of the mountain were falling, tearing up
11    1,   13|           to the very foot of the mountain. The plateau had stopped.~
12    1,   14|         Major, turning toward the mountain and pointing toward the
13    1,   14|         only met his death on the mountain, but found a grave which
14    1,   14|         wandered all night on the mountain. Sometimes the Major followed
15    1,   14|           mile up the side of the mountain. He wheeled round and round
16    1,   15|          crags at the foot of the mountain. A long gun was lying at
17    1,   20|    evening a hill, which seemed a mountain in so flat a country, was
18    2,    3|    November, at 3 P. M. the Table Mountain was sighted. At eight o’
19    2,    3|          of day, they saw a fresh mountain apparently emerging from
20    2,    3|          away of a portion of the mountain.~Twice over in the early
21    2,   19|        gone round the foot of the mountain, they crossed the long prairies
22    3,    6|           In the northeast rose a mountain about 2,300 feet high, whose
23    3,    6|         the northern slope of the mountain,” said John Mangles. “Wilson,
24    3,   10|           on a craggy spur of the mountain stood a “pah,” or Maori
25    3,   11|        sight again winding up the mountain side; the distance gave
26    3,   11|  procession wound slowly down the mountain, and henceforth none dare
27    3,   12|       darkness had settled on the mountain. Neither moon nor stars
28    3,   12|    practicable to the foot of the mountain. From this point the prisoners
29    3,   12|         rolled to the foot of the mountain.~They had reached half-way
30    3,   13|           CHAPTER XIII THE SACRED MOUNTAIN~THE summit of the mountain
31    3,   13|        MOUNTAIN~THE summit of the mountain was still a hundred feet
32    3,   13|           reached the foot of the mountain.~“Courage! my friends,”
33    3,   13|       they were at the top of the mountain, and then they turned to
34    3,   13|        stopped. The ascent of the mountain had ceased by an imperious
35    3,   13|          stood at the foot of the mountain yelling and gesticulating,
36    3,   13|           the extreme peak of the mountain, freshly painted posts formed
37    3,   13|    position round the base of the mountain, uttering fearful cries.~“
38    3,   13|          protects us, because the mountain is tabooed.”~“Tabooed?”~“
39    3,   13| acquainted with the fact that the mountain would be therefore tabooed.
40    3,   13|          made an exact map of the mountain. They noted the direction,
41    3,   13|        pressure. It was clear the mountain was the outer covering of
42    3,   13|        the volcanic nature of the mountain. The peak of Maunganamu
43    3,   13|        will never set foot on the mountain, and we shall have time
44    3,   13|        ground! Upon my word, this mountain is a paradise! I propose
45    3,   13|       flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell,
46    3,   13|    climbed the steep slope of the mountain, and then hastened to their
47    3,   14|          going at the foot of the mountain, without leaving their line
48    3,   14|         the natives has made this mountain a refuge for us, and we
49    3,   14|        They will not do that. The mountain is tabooed, and if it devoured
50    3,   14|     disappeared, the taboo of the mountain would be nullified. At the
51    3,   14|           intruders on the sacred mountain. Now and then, when the
52    3,   14|          launched on the avenging mountain a more rigorous taboo.~Soon
53    3,   14|       remained at the foot of the mountain, and when darkness set in
54    3,   14|           in the dark mass of the mountain. At two hundred feet below
55    3,   14|         to Maunganamu, but to the mountain system of the eastern side
56    3,   15|        out anew in this difficult mountain journey. His nyctalopia
57    3,   15|         at the foot of a nameless mountain, marked on Paganel’s map.
58    3,   15|         Glenarvan to this unnamed mountain, which rose 3,000 feet high,
59    3,   20|         the summit of a submarine mountain, a plateau composed of basaltic
60    3,   20|         epochs of the earth, this mountain had gradually emerged from
61    3,   20|       volcano had been a peaceful mountain, and the filled-up crater,
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