OH, SHOOT! 



Out on the lake we began to feel more fully 

 the immensity and the desolation of this place. 

 We were in a forgotten spot where man's 

 presence was a desecration. Out through 

 every rent and crevice in the mountain walls 

 glaciers large and small stared at us with dead, 

 blind eyes. Floating all about us were bergs 

 from the size of a water goblet to the size of 

 the Lusitania, and they were green or white 

 or blue or purple; some carried cargoes of 

 dripping mud, others were weighted with 

 piles of rock. Sometimes they rolled as 

 if weary of their prehistoric burdens or as if 

 seeking more easy positions, each movement 

 uplifting new angles and utterly changing 

 their outlines. We traced features of men 

 and shapes of beasts in them. Some wore pre- 

 posterous hats, millinered by the sun itself. 

 They filed about in an aimless yet ordered 

 confusion, pirouetting, bowing, sailing off at 

 apparently causeless tangents. 



It was a goblin place until one recognized 

 the forces which did the shifting as nothing 

 more supernatural than currents and rips 

 formed by the great cataract which dashed in 

 from above, together with the hidden stream 

 which flowed out from beneath the glacier it- 



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