... with such an act, he turned up his eyes, and with difficulty perceived, at an immeasurable height, a flight of condors soaring in circles in a particular spot. Beneath... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 98 1840 Full view - About this book
...himself or guide, lay the carcass of a horse, and over that carcass stood (as the guide well knew) the lion, whom the condors were eyeing with envy from...birds was to him what the sight of the lion alone cou'd have been to the traveller, a full assurance of its existence. CHAP. II. OF THE ANALYSIS OF PHENOMENA....