They rode out of the gray pocket in the ridge and began to climb Hare had not noticed the
rise till they were started, and then, as the horses climbed steadily he grew impatient at
the monotonous ascent There was nothing to see; frequently it seemed that they were soon to
reach the summit, but still it rose above them Hare went back to his comfortable place on
the sacks .
"Now, Jack," said August .
Hare gasped He saw a red world His eyes seemed bathed in blood Red scaly ground, bare of
vegetation, sloped down, down, far down to a vast irregular rent in the earth, which
zigzagged through the plain beneath To the right it bent its crooked way under the brow of
a black-timbered plateau; to the left it straightened its angles to find a V-shaped vent in
the wall, now uplifted to a mountain range It was the shimmering dust-veiled desert .
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