MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER VOL. I by Herman Melville

Late in the afternoon of the second day I place my ear to the pine's trunk and listen for a while to the heartbeat. ... About an hour upstream it feels like wilderness again. ... On Toluca's Friday market day already just an hour after dawn the streets around the market are clogged with carts of bananas, mahogany-colored heaps of Metepec ... ................
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