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Israel Potter: (Herman Melville Classics Collection)

Israel Potter: (Herman Melville Classics Collection)

Melville, Herman

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1512347930
ISBN13: 9781512347937
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 23 2015
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own proper person: great lord paramount over many kings in Mardi; his hands full of scepters and crosiers. Soon, rounding a lofty and insulated shore, the great central peak of the island came in sight; domineering over the neighboring hills; the same aspiring pinnacle, descried in drawing near the archipelago in the Chamois. Tall Peak of Ofo! cried Babbalanja, how comes it that thy shadow so broods over Mardi; flinging new shades upon spots already shaded by the hill-sides; shade upon shade! Yet, so it is, said Yoomy, sadly, that where that shadow falls, gay flowers refuse to spring; and men long dwelling therein become shady of face and of soul. 'Hast thou come from out the shadows of Ofo?' inquires the stranger, of one with a clouded brow. It was by this same peak, said Mohi, that the nimble god Roo, a great sinner above, came down from the skies, a very long time ago. Three skips and a jump, and he landed on the plain. But alas, poor Roo! though easy the descent, there was no climbing back.

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