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have subjected them to a degree of torment neither 

 man nor beast could endure, so that they were 

 obliged to retreat." "I wish I could say,"' he feel- 

 ingly adds, "that we left the enemy in possession 

 of the field. Not so; they pursued us with blood- 

 thirsty pertinacity, until we reached some open 

 meadows, when they were driven back into their 

 fenny region by a breeze,— I hope to prey on each 

 other."* 



* Atkinson's M Siberia," p. 75, et passim. 



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