"Fort Yuma [California] is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time--except when it varies and goes higher. It is a military post and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once , and, of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition , --and the next day he 'telegraphed back for his blankets.'"
P. 837, ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain (1984)
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
FORT YUMA
"Fort Yuma [California] is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time--except when it varies and goes higher. It is a military post and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once , and, of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition , --and the next day he 'telegraphed back for his blankets.'"
P. 837, ROUGHING IT by Mark Twain (1984)