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lopped off, carefully refraining to look in that 

 direction, and the smile which played over his 

 features at beholding the stomach filled with 

 berries. " C'est leur facon," said the interpreter 

 to my inquiry, who, notwithstanding the philo- 

 sophic tenor of his answer, was evidently as 

 interested in the scrutiny as the Indian himself. 

 By the same " fa9on, " I learned that the rein- 

 deer had no gall-bladder in the region of the 

 liver, nor any where else, that they could dis- 

 cover ; a fact of which I have no hesitation in 

 confessing my previous ignorance, but which 

 was subsequently verified by the anatomical 

 examination of Mr. King. 



The march was resumed, sometimes in valleys 

 heaped with confused masses of debris from the 

 surrounding granite, at others along narrow 

 shelves of perpendicular rocks, not unlike some 

 of the passes of the Alps, and threatening the 

 same disastrous consequences from a false step. 

 Our route seemed even perilous ; and thinking 

 the Indian had purposely led us into it by way 

 of revenge for the late laugh, I hastened forward 

 to remonstrate; but he kept his lead, and when I 

 reached the summit of the mountain, the sun was 

 setting, and it was time to encamp. "Let not the 

 sun go down on thy wrath," admonished me to 

 be silent; and when Maufelly pointed to Artillery 



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