This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...valley, whose precipitous grassy sides afforded the mountain folk every chance at us, and us no chance of escape from them. What's in that big roll behind your saddle? I asked. I've only brought my Wolseley sleeping-bag, Elliott said, and a suit of clothes for a change, and my pajamas, and mackintosh, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...valley, whose precipitous grassy sides afforded the mountain folk every chance at us, and us no chance of escape from them. What's in that big roll behind your saddle? I asked. I've only brought my Wolseley sleeping-bag, Elliott said, and a suit of clothes for a change, and my pajamas, and mackintosh, and slippers, razors, and towels. One would think you were invited out for a week at a country-house, said I, who had brought literally nothing except a little quinine and witch-hazel, a tooth-brush and a cake of soap. I like to have plenty of changes, said he, but of course it's impossible this time. I've been obliged once or twice to sleep in my clothes, and I know you'll think it's absurd, but I noticed I shot badly next day each time it happened. I missed a black leopard in India once for the want. of my tub that morning. Now I make it a rule to bathe if I can only go through the motions with a quart of water. No matter where an Englishman is, said I, in the Sudan or at the north pole, he still lives as he used to live in England. It is very remarkable that every one should be always charging an Englishman with his nationality, said Elliott. It is the only nationality that is worn like a coat of mail, said I. I dare say that's very clever, said he. You Americans always say such clever things. But, hello Here are these mountain beggars. Now we shall see something. We saw something indeed. The path widened out into a bowl-like valley, whose broad middle was the dried-up bed of a stream: On one side, the mountain sent up a sheer...
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