Although his will was so very strong, his temper was good about little things, and he never began to abuse all the world because he had made a mistake himself.
"Erema," he said, "at this corner where we stand there ought to be a very large pine-tree in sight, or rather a great redwood-tree, at least twice as high as any tree that grows in Europe, or Africa even.

From the plains it can be seen for a hundred miles or more.

It stands higher up the mountainside than any other tree of even half its size, and that makes it so conspicuous.

My eyes must be failing me, from all this glare; but it must be in sight.

Can you see it now ?" "I see no tree of any kind whatever, but scrubby bushes and yellow tufts; and oh, father, I am so thirsty!" "Naturally.