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of a dotted line and a solitary peak, Stokes Mountain, the height of

which could be estiulated from the sea

Even Concepcion Straits on the north and the San Blas Channel on the

south were nificant dotted lines The coast was

practically unknown to civilized ri

and glacier and reef-strewn sea

It was borne in on the girl, while she worked, that the chiefest marvel

in her present condition was the triumph of science over nature in its

most hostile mood The Kansas boasted all the comforts and luxuries

of a well-equipped hotel Seated at the saarithles, as if he were in so the warm sun, Boyle was stretched on a

deck-chair, while Christobal was offering a half-hearted protest

against his patient's ar he had been

able to smoke since a Chilean knife disturbed certain sensory nerves

between his shoulder-blades The every sociableness of the gathering

was a paradox: the truth lay with the ice-capped hills and the ape-like

nomads who infested the humid forests of the lower slopes