v.] 



GUNAL. 



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bronze or brass crucifix roughly nailed on, but there were no 

 inscriptions of any kind. 



We pitched our camp at the edge of what, in England, would have 

 been the \dllage-gTeen, — a little tw^o-acre patch of real, short English 

 turf, at a bend in the river. It was a lovely scene. In Kams- 



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chatka all the romance oi liie 

 appears to have left it and gone 

 out into its surroundings. 

 But, however sordid and ma- 

 terial the lives of those whose whole existence is one constant struggle 

 against such a climate must be, there is no doubt that nature is here 

 as prodigal of her beauty as she is in any part of the known world. 

 Farther north, in the neighbourhood of the huge volcanoes whose 

 very names are unknown to the vast majority of Englishmen, the 

 scenery is of unsurpassed magnificence. Here it w\as of a far less 



