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CHAPTER VIII. 



USHKUL. 



Until we reached the long tableland, be- 

 yond which lay Mookraer and Ushkul, our 

 road, ever since we left Kiitais, had wound 

 through a densely wooded countiy, a land 

 of boulder- strewn ravines and rapid moun- 

 tain torrents, lying dark and cool in the 

 shadow of dense forests. Now all this was 



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