1."Dark cliffs seemed to hang like draperies from the misty sky.""A thought bolted through him like lightning." "He exploded like a match." "The wind seemed to pick her up and carry her along like a feather." "There, ships were sometimes cracked in two like nuts between the rocky jaws of the passage."

2. As you can see in the picture called "Placer Mining " the water from the waterfall is flowing like tears racing down. Then the miners are standing on the rock hoping to strike it rich as if anything can be possible. While searching through the ground.

3.The days were feeling shorter because they were close to their destination.

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