TO THE HOLY HILLS 



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on. Also I gave Kallina his knife. He had quite made 

 up his mind that as our boat had not come he should not 

 get the knife, and was saying- something sorrowfully about 

 it when I whipped it out and gave it to him. You should 

 have seen his face change ! I was frankly sorry to leave 

 these kind friends, to whom we owed so much, and the 

 feeling, I know, was shared by them. 



Alexander's karbass or boat 



1 Good-bye, Kolguev !' shouted Alexander as we moved 



off. He had long been practising this bit of English 



under Hyland's tuition, and Hyland shouted it, too, gaily 



enough. He was only too pleased to be off. We all 



cheered. But I knew very well that we were not gone 



yet. Everything in my view pointed to bad weather. 



And at least one person took care that we should not 



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