A spectrum of colours like a rainbow produced by the sun shining on spray.
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A useful introductory chapter discusses how mountains create a rain shadow, and how to get a feel for weather by looking at clouds and sunbows.
We beheld an immense body of water fall two hundred and fifty feet, dashing from rock to rock, and casting a spray which formed a mist around it, in the midst of which hung a multitude of sunbows, which faded or became unspeakably vivid, as the inconstant sun shone through the clouds.
That makes chasing sunbows an uncertain pursuit, and the successful sighting of a sunbow all the more joyous an event.
When looking for images of sunbows on the web, I did see some spectral separation, but there was a large component of white light that washed out the rainbow effect.
It was said by some that in ‘the time of the White Buffalo’ sunbows, or whirling rainbows, would begin to appear more frequently as a sign to the people.