Over the next forty years, numerous reports from mountain men and trappers told of boiling mud, steaming rivers and petrified trees, yet most of these reports were believed at the time to be myth.[15]
在接下来四十多年里，从山人和毛皮猎人大量报道中讲述了这些沸腾的泥浆，热气腾腾的河流以及石化了的树木，但是大部分这些报道当时都被认为是神话。
Two men look out through the same bars:one sees the mud, and one the stars. -----Frederick Langbridge, British writer
两个人透过同一个铁栅向外望：一个看到泥泞，一个看到星光。
Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud.
我有五千个人呆在外面冰冷的泥地里。
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