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ice caves with which the Great Glacier 
has seen fit to decorate its lower line, 
wonderful rooms of ice, emerald in the 
shadows, with glacial streams for 
floors. 
So the next morning we started out, 
intending a little bit to further explore 
the vast, cold, heartless ice sheet (vaster 
than all the Swiss glaciers together), 
but more to hunt for the warm beat- 
ing heart of a mountain sheep, whose 
home is here. We had been travel- 
ling for miles in the wildest kind of 
earth upheavals, for the Selkirks are 
still hard and fast in the grip of the ice 
king; huge boulders, uprooted trees, 
mighty mountains, released but recent- 
ly from the glacial wet blanket, when 
Nimrod discovered the stale track of a 
mountain sheep. We followed it ea- 
gerly till it brought us across the path 
