Baron Sebastian von Trump
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5,524 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Baron Sebastian von Trump’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was blessed with legs of the sturdiest sort, and found no difficulty in keeping pace with my new four footed friends, who to my delight, were not long in convincing me that they had been there before.
Not for an instant did they halt at any fork in the path, but kept continually on the move, often passing over stretches of ground where there was no trail visible.
but coming upon it again with unfailing accuracy.
Once only they halted, and that was to slake their thirst at a mountain rill.
Bulgar and I followed their example.
It was only too evident to me that they had in mind a certain grazing ground, and were resolved to be satisfied with no other.
So I let them have their own way, for as it was still up, I felt that it was perfectly safe to follow their lead.
At last the mountainside began to take on quite another character.
The gorges grew narrower, and at times overhanging rock shut out the sunlight almost entirely.
We were entering a region of peculiar wildness of fantastic grandeur.
I had often read of what travellers termed the quarries of the demons in the northern Urals, but never till now had I the faintest notion of what the expression meant.
Imagine to yourself the usual look of ruin and devastation around and about a quarry worked by human hands.
Then, in your thoughts conceive every chip to be a block
And every block a mass, add four times its size to every slab and post and pecument, and then turn a mighty torrent through the place, and roll and twist and lift them up in wild confusion, end on end and on each other piled till these wild waters have builded fantastic portals to temples, more fantastic, and arched wild gorges with roofs of rock which seem to hang down.
running so lightly that a breath or footfall might bring them down with terrible crash, and then dear friends, you may succeed in getting a faint idea of the wild and awful grandeur of the scene which now lay spread out before me.
Would the cattle that had now led Bulgar and me so safely up the mountainside know where to find an entrance to this wilderness of broken rock?
And what was more important still, would they, when once engaged within its winding courts and corridors, its darkened maze of wall and parapet, its streets and plazas roughly paved, as if by demon hands impatient of the task, know how to find their way out again?
Dear friends, man has always been too distrustful of his four footed companions.
They have much that they might tell us, had they but speech to tell it with.
I have often trusted them when it would have seemed foolhardy to you, and never once have I had cause to repent of doing so.
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