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lay a great expanse of rock and valley half hidden in 

 cloud : from this blew an icy blast, which seemed to 

 cut throuL^di my khaki clothing; liki' a knife. The 

 uround was thickly strewn with locusts, which had tried 



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to cross and had perished by the coUl. The Somalis 

 were ashy-blue with cold, every one was shivering, and 

 even the mules could only with difficulty be made to 

 face the freezing wind. Fortunately, we soon began to 

 descend by a steep but fairly good track, with a wall of 

 ragged cliffs on our left, and an appar<mtly liottomless 

 pit filled with clouds on our right. In a lililr grassy 



