A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things. It is like floundering in a sea of cotton; everything looks blurred and white.

When a maiden, gentle or simple, intendeth marriage against her kinsmen's wishes, it is the way to wed first, and to write the letter and ask the blessing when the evil is done."

The Ethiopians bordering on Egypt, whom Cambyses subdued when he marched against the Macrobian‐Ethiopians, and who dwell about the sacred city of Nysa, and celebrate festivals of Bacchus — these Ethiopians and their neighbors use the same grain as the Calantian Indians, and live in subterraneous dwellings — both these bring every third year, and they continued to do so to my time, two chœnices of unmolten gold, two hundred blocks of ebony, five Ethiopian boys, and twenty large elephants’ tusks.

For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found at some distance from our station, the remains of a kaama or hartebeest, which had been devoured by a lion ….