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24 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I could see right away that these people were not Indians. Nor were they scrupulously white. Their skins were tan and without ointment. We could see this because the men were shirtless and in shorts. The women also wore shorts and co...
23 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
By summer we’d reached flatlands, once the farmlands of America. Now they were grasslands dotted with woods and lakes and crisscrossed with streams. In some places we came upon forests of young trees. The rainfall of the last decade,...
22 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The chief and I, our five scouts, spent a much more active winter. When weather permitted, we set off with guns to hunt and explore the surrounding hills. We constructed snowshoes, and soon after wooden skies, as much for our amusement...
21 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“I am continuing my narrative,” (he wrote) “after a two-week delay, caused by my running out of paper. I now have a plentiful supply, but also a small group of followers to superintend, such is the twisting of fate. But I expect to f...
20 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Stream and valley floor (the reason I now post pictures in color is that color and richness now enter the lives of Jonathan's disciples) The next morning Jonathan gave his followers a tour of his estate. As he led them up the hill to...
19 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Towards noon Jonathan called his troop to a halt, to eat lunch at the top of a hill. From this height they could see the land rolling away in all directions, out of sight of the sea. When Jonathan noticed his wards all gawking at the v...
19 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
That evening, after a brief interview with his new assistants, who seemed quite as satisfactory as any he could have chosen himself, Jonathan retired to a much smaller banquet in the temple. The priests were too tired to eat much or eve...
18 Mar 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When Jonathan looked back at the priest he could see that the old man was hanging on his every word, and his eyes were full of water. He felt sorry for this poor servant of God, for whom the mere mention of a holy spring brought tears t...
17 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Early next morning he was roused out of a dreamless sleep by the bells that called the temple priests to breakfast. As this day had been declared a day of celebration, there would be no morning service. The prayers would be integrated...
