Having Spent The Night In A Portuguese Inn, Woven Like An Eagle's
Nest Out Of Bamboos, And Clinging To The Almost Vertical Side Of
A Rock, We Rose At Daybreak, And, Having Visited All The Points
De Vue Famed For Their Beauty, Made Our Preparations To Return To
Narel.
By daylight the panorama was still more splendid than by
night; volumes would not suffice to describe it.
Had it not been
that on three sides the horizon was shut out by rugged ridges of
mountain, the whole of the Deccan plateau would have appeared before
our eyes. Bombay was so distinct that it seemed quite near to us,
and the channel that separates the town from Salsetta shone like
a tiny silvery streak. It winds like a snake on its way to the
port, surrounding Kanari and other islets, which look the very
image of green peas scattered on the white cloth of its bright
waters, and, finally, joins the blinding line of the Indian Ocean
in the extreme distance. On the outer side is the northern Konkan,
terminated by the Tal-Ghats, the needle-like summits of the Jano-Maoli
rocks, and, lastly, the battlemented ridge of Funell, whose bold
silhouette stands out in strong relief against the distant blue
of the dim sky, like a giant's castle in some fairy tale. Further
on looms Parbul, whose flat summit, in the days of old, was the
seat of the gods, whence, according to the legends, Vishnu spoke
to mortals.
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