A TALE OF THE GRAND JAEDIN 



a clump of stunted spruces to windward 

 gave a little shelter, we had much ado 

 to keep the friendly canvas roof over 

 our heads by anchoring it with stones. 



After putting on dry clothes we ex- 

 plored the provision sack, discovering 

 nothing more inviting than pork and 

 crumbled biscuit. Tea there was, but 

 even an old hand could not boil a kettle, 

 or cook fish, in such a tumult of rain and 

 wind. Three weeks of wandering had 

 brought us to the lowest ebb, and our 

 men, who had departed in the morning 

 for an outpost of civilization where sup- 

 plies could be obtained, would scarcely 

 return in such weather. We guessed, 

 and rightly as it turned out, that they 

 had chosen to spend the night at La 

 Galette, the nerve-extremity, respond- 

 ing faintly to impulses from the world 

 of men, where the gossip of the country- 

 side awaited them. 



So were we two alone in one of the 

 loneliest places this wide earth knows. 



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