52 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



and deeply grateful to the Providence that 

 had saved me. 



The story of such a slip takes a long 

 time telling, but though my slide was perhaps 

 a hundred yards long, from the time I knew I 

 was underway to the time I reappeared from 

 my snow covering could not have been more 

 than a matter of moments. And yet with 

 the fear of death before me, my mind could 

 not only provide what was best for my own 

 safety, but review my past and thmk of the 

 future of those at home. After that it did 

 not seem hard to me to understand the possi- 

 bility of that Mind of the universe, which 

 knows all our thoughts and at one moment of 

 time has in Its infinite grasp what was, and 

 what is, and what is to come. 



Singing out to the Svan not to come down 

 I proceeded to climb up the edge of my 

 enemy the snow slope, .and having got to the 

 place where we had begun our line of foot 



