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.
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4. Sheer deep upon unfathomable deep, etc.