PART THREE

The Pacific

. . . and I will remark here, in passing, that all scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

MARK TWAIN, Roughing It

Go, go, go said the bird: human kind

Cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. ELIOT, Four Quartets

Fowler . . . continued his discoveries, with the result that I came out safe and sound, at the end. . . .

MARK TWAIN, Autobiography