RECOTJ.l'i'TroXS OF CllAMolS lirXTIXC 



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At tlu' tirsl (>|ip()rliiiiit y I ivpcalcd the cxprrinRsut, 

 lilt madt' iii\' a])|H-oa('li('s iiku-c sriciil iHcallw i started 



AN nl.l) ( IIAMDIS HINTEK 



fi-om rf^ntrc^iiia. wliich was not tlio fasliirnialili^ ro^^ort it 



The track led tlu-iii across a steep couloir tilled with deep loose snow, intu 

 which they ijliiiiged up to their middles. "When hall-way across this the 

 mass parted just above them, and moved downwards with ever-accelerating 

 speed, snmotimes covering them deep with a surging mass, and then again 



tossing tlicin in the air. At last S felt himself suddenly and violentlv 



arrested by sonu- pmtiuding substance, wliich afterwards proved to be a 

 liroken stump of a tree. Alti-r a time he recovered consciousness and suc- 

 ceeded in shaking himself free. His first thought was for his frieml. if 

 whom nothing was to be seen. But as he gazed over the waste of snow, lie 

 saw at a distance a twig, which had been pressed duwnwards, recover itself 

 and spring U]i. Thinking it might lu; the sign of some life he made his way 

 to the spot, and close by it found a boot jirotruding from the surface. 

 Scraping the snow away as best he could with Ids naked hands, he at h-ngtli 

 uncovered the body us far as the face, 'tin- man was apparently dead, and 

 his face almost black ; but presently he came to, ami was little the worse, 



while S himself, in turn, fainted from the injuries he had receiveil, and 



was laid up for six weeks before he recovered. 



