[Gutenberg 34139] • Real Gold: A Story of Adventure

Excerpt from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure

But, all the same, it had its beauty. More, its grand eur, for apparently close at hand, though miles away in the clear distance, rose the great Sierra - the mighty range of mountains, next to the Himalayas the highest in the world - and seeming to rise suddenly like a gigantic wall right up into the deep blue sky, cloudless, and dazzling with the ice and snow.

The two boys, both of them, though fair by nature, tanned now of a warm reddish brown, were Of about the same age, and nearly the same physique; and as now they twisted the stout lines they had been holding round the thole pins of the boat, which softly rose and fell with a pleasant lulling motion, the first who had spoken unfastened the neck-button of his shirt.

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