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lay a great expanse of rock and valley half hidden in 

 cloud ; from this blew an icy blast, which seemed to 

 cut through my khaki clothing like a knife. The 

 ground was thickly strewn with locusts, which had tried 



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to cross and had perished by the cold. The Somalis 

 were ashy-blue with cold, every one was shivering, and 

 even the mules could only with difficulty be made to 

 face the freezing wind. Fortunately, we soon began to 

 descend by a steep but fairly good track, with a wall of 

 ragged cliffs on our left, and an apparently bottomless 

 pit filled with clouds on our right. In a little grassy 



