Excerpt from Tales of the Argonauts, and Eastern Sketches, Vol. 2 Nor was the weather any better in the foothills. The mud lay deep on the mountain road; waggons that neither physical force nor moral Objurgation could move from the evil ways into which they had fallen encumbered the track, and the way to Simpson's Bar was indicated by broken down teams and hard swearing. And farther on, cut Off and inaccessible, rained upon and bedraggled, smitten by high winds and threatened by high water, Simpson's Bar, on the eve Of Christmas Day, 1862, clung like a swallow's nest to the rocky entablature and splintered capitals Of Table Mountain, and shook in the blast. 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.