Stern-lookin' guards a-watchin' over the coins.
There wuz everything under the sun that could be seen in South America, from a mule to a orchid.
And in the centre of the buildin' wuz a section of the great Sequois tree from California. The tree is twenty-five feet in diameter, and has been hollowed out, and a stairway built up inside of it. Stairs inside of a tree! Good land!
But what is the use, I have only waded out a few steps. The deep lake lays before us.
I hain't gin much idee of all there is to see in that buildin', and I hain't in any on 'em.
You have got to swim out for yourself, and then you may have some idee of the vastness on't. But you can't describe 'em, I don't believe—nobody can't.
In front of that buildin' we see one of the two largest guns ever made in the world.
It wuz made in Essen, Germany. It weighs two hundred and seventy thousand pounds, and is forty-seven feet long.
It will hit anything sixteen miles off, and with perfect accuracy and effect at a distance of twelve miles.