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out, seemed to be shallower. I took off some things and 

 waded across, while Hyland sat with Sailor and watched. 

 The river was about a hundred yards wide, and there 

 were some nasty-looking places where the current set 

 very strongly. So I went slowly up and down, feeling 

 my way along the shallows with my toes, for you couldn't 

 see the bottom, it was so muddy. At its deepest it 

 was only half-way up one's thighs. Snow water is not 

 warm, and for a few minutes after landing I could not 

 tell my feet from my boots. 



Hyland came manfully across in half the time that I 

 had taken. But, though I am afraid I chaffed him a bit, 

 I was really very sorry for him, poor fellow ; he felt 

 the cold so badly. It seemed to catch him higher up 

 than in my case. I fancy that the practice of having 

 a cold bath every morning perhaps makes one less 

 sensitive. 



Sailor thought nothing of it, though he had to swim. 

 Dogs must look on us as very poor and imperfect 

 creatures in view of the fuss we make over a thing so 

 simple to them. 



Under the cross I found a wooden implement which 

 I took for a paddle. I thought possibly it had belonged 

 to one of the poor Raskolniks, but I know now that 

 it was a Samoyed dough-trowel or spatula, and that 

 this was therefore a Samoyed grave. All of which will 

 appear later on. 



Just after this we came upon a fox-warren. If you 



