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tlir most kllllMiK' stolics, mill lil.-nlc t';i\(illl';il>|(' (•0111] t;irisi»ii 

 ln'twcfii ihis and (Mir iiii^lil (|uai't('i-s on llic l>ioiiiias>a\'. 

 I'Irtc was l)ut 011c drawback; wo had 110 water, and our 

 wine was all Li'oiic. (^idiat went in scai-di of a sti'cam as 

 .soou as we arrived, luii it was so dark lliai lie was unable 

 to find any. 



After t\\i> hours of restless and intri-nnttent dozini>', the 

 skv oTow lii-lii bcldnd the iao-oT'd edu'e of ^Nlont Hroo-lic. 

 and the full inocui I'ose. The liulil was so brilliant lliai 

 things were almost as }»lainly seen as b\- da\. \\\' wvic 

 so comfortable, that if it had not been for want of water, 

 T think we should have stay(Ml wln're wo were. But we 

 etiuld hear a ri\idet ifuroiino- nnder the ice in a tantalisini>- 

 manner a few yards off, and this ao-oi-avated our ihii'st to 

 such a degree, that, in the hope ol" finding some lower 

 down, we started again, and before long came upon a 

 sprinu'. which was, however, too stino-ino- cold to drink 

 from, except sparingly. 



We now got on to the lowest spur of the buttress w lii<h 

 tli\'iiles the (Racier dii Dome fi'om that (•!" the Xorlhrrn 

 Miau'e. The last few hundreil I'cci were steep iiioU'di to 

 be a bore in the deceptive light of the moon and in oui- 

 tired condition, S(j telling thr nifii to tind out ihc best wax- 

 ami then call us, we curled ourselves u\> in a hollow and 

 dozed again. In a (piartrr of an hour a voii-c beh)w told 

 us to come on, ami at twehe o'clock we got down on lo 

 the Miage Glacier, whose com]iai'ativelv level sti-eam we 

 ought to have begun to follow ten or eleven hours before. 

 From that time I remrudx'r iiothinii" bul man\' an un- 

 satisfvinuc drink and man\' a sleepv siund)lc, till we 

 reached the l)road level path of the Allt'c Blamhr. There 



