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... ground was cover- ed with snow ; but we were rather pleased with this foretaste of a nomade winter life . For our bivouac during the night we chose a clear spot of ground between high trees , which afforded some protection from the ...
... ground was cover- ed with snow ; but we were rather pleased with this foretaste of a nomade winter life . For our bivouac during the night we chose a clear spot of ground between high trees , which afforded some protection from the ...
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... ground . The winter is , in- deed , the only season when these morasses are properly passable ; and then , although the ground is hard and safe , the traveller on these vast unshel- tered wastes is exposed to the most violent tem- pests ...
... ground . The winter is , in- deed , the only season when these morasses are properly passable ; and then , although the ground is hard and safe , the traveller on these vast unshel- tered wastes is exposed to the most violent tem- pests ...
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... ground ; but the other half was over loose gravel and fragments of rock , where we were no longer able to trace the footsteps of our guides . By keeping an oblique course down this steep and difficult slope , still leading our horses ...
... ground ; but the other half was over loose gravel and fragments of rock , where we were no longer able to trace the footsteps of our guides . By keeping an oblique course down this steep and difficult slope , still leading our horses ...
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rival of the English Traveller Captain Cochrane The | 87 |
CHAPTER V | 97 |
CHAPTER VI | 114 |
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