The hot silence was broken shortly after 3 p.m., when a dozen men, singing a war chant, hoisted dugout canoes into the Cavally.
We reluctantly marched higher and higher in hot silence, making our way toward a tiny dot on the horizon, where we were told Talo Chipla lay.
"It was terribly close and hot, a silence as of death hung over all nature, and man and beast lay listless and depressed in suspense beneath the incubus of the coming storm.
Turning inland is Peille, where the hot stone silence of the central square echoes as you ring a big bell to be served, or the more touristy St Agnes, or Gorbio.
I was drawn to this adventure not because of white water, of which I had no experience, but by the notion that I would be entering the second-largest wilderness area (after Death Valley) in the continental United States: the 2.3-million-acre Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, with its otters, eagles, bears, bobcats, hot springs, silence and stars, stars, stars.
Fuel yourself with beauty, inspiration, music, laughter, nature, a hot soaking bath, silence.
No real suprise, then, that in many of her books, alongside dreamy, neverland English summers and the triumphant finding of uncountable treasures, she unforgettably conveys the hot-eyed, resenting silence of the mourning child who cannot cry.
Fellow commentators, all of them in awe, explain that Mr Benaud didn't feel the need to fill every silence, like hot air rushing into a vacuum.
We ate our hot vegetable mashes in silence, until a Colombian tour group we recognized from the plane ride between Kathmandu and Varanasi walked in, sat down, stood up again, and then walked out.
"There was a huge silence on crisis hot lines right after Sept. 11," said Reese Butler of the National Hopeline Network, which connects 73 hot lines nationwide in its 1-800-SUICIDE 1-800-SUICIDE 1-800-SUICIDE
Miss Y never utters a word; her silence is a hot poker, goading Mrs. X, who talks and talks until she hits on the truth: Miss Y had an affair with Mrs. X's husband.
