Now in the retrospect I see it as intensely queer. The wholeplace was strange to my untraveled eyes; the sea even was strange.Only twice in my life had I been at the seaside before, and thenI had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coast whose greatcliffs of rock and mountain backgrounds made the effect of the horizonvery different from what it is upon the East Anglian seaboard.
He recalledthat he had been looking for loose stones to raise his piece of theshelter wall. His ice-axe had disappeared... read more
