The Fountain Kloof

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483395701
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Fountain Kloof written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fountain Kloof: Or Missionary Life in South Africa But lower down, at the base of those stupendous rocky cliffs, where shade and moisture are com moner, vegetation again asserts itself in tropical luxuriance. How gloriously do the golden balls of the mimosa glitter innumerably among vivid green foliage! Motionless they hang, these bril liant flowers, hour after hour in the scorching still ness, unless when a gorgeous butterfly alights for a moment and swings to and fro by the fluttering of his painted wings. The wondrous silence of Africa is over the whole scene; no voice of bird issues from the abundant copsewood, no undercurrent of insect sounds drones low. It might be the stillness of a pre-adamite world, nay, of a pre-animal world, but for the painted butterflies aforesaid and the emerald sheen of a lizard which has stolen forth to lie on a hot slab of rock. No leaf of all the foliage stirs - Nature is in her siesta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.