=11.= Sleep out the glare. With groping hands for sight,
Hugh sleeps on the afternoon of the third day of his journey.
Explain “groping hands for sight.”
=14.= Or sensed—the dusky mystery of plain.
Why dusky mystery? Can you see a prairie by starlight?
=15.= Gazing aloft, he found the capsized Wain
“Capsized Wain,” Bear. What time of night?
=16–17.= Thereto he set his back;
What direction did he take? How much knowledge of the
constellations must have meant to primitive men! To sailors! To
hunters! Read Bryant’s “Hymn to the North Star.”
=19.= The star-blanched summit of a lonely butte
=20.= And thitherward he dragged his heavy limb.
Note the butte used to guide the crawler. Could a plainsman see
a butte by starlight? Could a “tenderfoot”?
=21.= It seemed naught moved, etc.
The movement on a prairie and in the night seems objectless.
It gives a supreme sense of monotony. Time stopped. We measure
time by events; no events, no time.
Define: blanched, incipient.