"Certainly I do. Once this valley was a basin of ice. Have you not studied geology, Archibald?"
"I have, sir, and I never learned that a glacier could ever thrive in such a d—d hot hole as this. Say, Richardson, were you living in the Glacial Period?"
"Which one?"
"Was there more than one?"
"Yes, sir."
"Were you living in the last one?"
"Yes, sir."
"Hear that, guide, Richardson says he was living in the Glacial Period, which was more than 40,000 years ago, and he does not look to be more than two or three hundred years old. Will you explain, Mr. R.?"
"Oh, yes, the Glacial Period is now on at the poles—long ago it was on in this valley and still longer ago it was down in the states. Do you not know that our world is slowly revolving in the direction we call south? That is God's wise plan to give each part of the earth rest. Tropical animals once lived here and in Siberia.
"Who told you all that stuff?"