His working day had started unpropitiously; since an aëroplane survey of the nearly exposed rock surfaces shewed an entire absence of those Archaean and primordial strata for which he was looking, and which formed so great a part of the colossal peaks that loomed up at a tantalising distance from the camp.
Eguna gaizki antzean hasi zuen, aireplanotik esploratzean ikusi baitzuen erdi ageriko harkaitz-azaletan ez zirela inon ere ageri bilatzen ari zen antzinako estratu arkaikoak, nahiz eta kanpalekutik distantzia amorragarrian altxatzen ziren gailur mehatxagarri erraldoi haietan ugariak ziren.