Through a region of great distances little traversed^ 

 where vcgetatioii becomes so thick as to hide many a pitfall, it 

 seems not strange that the mountaineer is ?nostly silent and 

 turns his glance quickly away after once having eticountered 

 that of the stranger. But through jungles of rhododendrons, 

 ivith ears aivake for the panther's cry ; in. and out among 

 noble hetnlocks; or wading for miles down sivollen streams^ he 

 has no fear. Such to hitn are only the harmless, familiar 

 spirits of the mountains. 



(cxxi.) 



