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which had found a footing high up the precipitous 

 crags. 



And all this was combined with peaks and slopes 

 of pure white snow. Aiguilles of dark rock rose out 

 of beds of snow, but their faces were powdered with 

 the same element. Glaciers and long beds of snow 

 ran down the valleys, and the upper vegetation had 

 snow for its bed. The effect of sunset upon this 

 scene was wonderful ; for the colours it displayed 

 were both heightened and more harmoniously blended. 

 The golden light of eve brought out the warm tints 

 of the forest ; but the glow of the reddish-brown 

 precipices, and the rosy light upon the snowy slopes 

 and peaks, were too soon succeeded by the cold grey 

 of evening. At first, however, the wondrous scene 

 was still visible in a quarter-moon's silvery light, in 

 which the Panjtarne valley was in truth 



" A wild romantic chasm that slanted 



Down the sweet hill athwart a cedarn cover 

 A savage place, as holy and enchanted 

 As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted 

 By woman wailing for her demon lover." 



The demon lovers to be met with in that wild 

 valley are bears, which are in abundance; and a 

 more delightful place for a hunter to spend a month 

 in could hardly be invented ; but he would have to 

 depend on his rifle for supplies, or have them sent 

 up from many miles down the Sind valley. 



The remainder of my journey down this latter 



