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the traveller will find smoke-blackened lairs amongst the rocks, 

 and round beds amongst the fallen pine needles at the base of 



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Waiting for the dawn 



■some great tree just on the timber limit. In these, for genera- 

 tions, the ibex hunters of Svanetia have rested from their 

 labours and waited for the dawn. 



