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path, hemmed in, angry, deep and narrow 

 between two ranges of high grey crags, 

 densely covered with forests of the noblest 

 pines, merging near the margm of the stream 

 into a border of tamer-looking forest trees. 



Now and again the rocks that imprison 

 the fretting river withdraw, and for a few 

 hundred yards the green waters roll out in a 

 broad and comparatively peaceful flood, while 

 on either side some few acres of land lie 

 on a gentle slope not far above the river's 

 brim. 



Here you find the maize ' tchalashes,' as 

 the Svans call them ; villa residences of 

 adventurous settlers from Lachamul, who, 

 having built themselves good log huts of the 

 pine trees round, plant all the level land with 

 maize and spend their whole summer with 

 theh families in guarding their little crop 

 from that great thief. Bruin. 



Such a tchalash we reached late on Friday 



