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A STARTLING SIGHT. 



steps for considerable distances. Smooth snow - fields ex- 

 tended down on either side for fully a thousand feet, and 

 sometimes at an angle of considerably less than than 45. 

 After a long and tiresome descent, my shikarees and I sat 

 down to rest ourselves, and to wait for our laden followers, 



A Glissade. 



who, as we watched them coming slowly along the ridge, 

 looked in the distance like small black dots moving on the 

 sky-line of snow. A sudden exclamation of horror escaped 

 me, which rather startled my companions, as I saw the lead- 

 ing man come tumbling, as I thought, down what seemed, 

 from where we sat, to be an almost perpendicular wall of 

 snow. My horror was mingled with astonishment at seeing 

 another and then another man follow the first, until all had 

 slid down to where the snow was less steep below, from 

 whence they leisurely continued their descent, when it at 

 once struck me what a mistake I had made in my unpleasant 

 surmises. 



