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out, seemed to be shallower. 1 took off some things and 
waded across, while Hyland sat with Sailor and watched. 
The river was about a hundred yards wide, and there 
were some nasty-looking places where the current set 
very strongly. So I went slowly up and down, feeling 
my way along the shallows with my toes, for you couldn’t 
see the bottom, it was so muddy. At its deepest it 
was only half-way up one’s thighs. Snow water is not 
warm, and for a few minutes after landing I could not 
tell my feet from my boots. 
Hyland came manfully across in half the time that I 
had taken. But, though I am afraid I chaffed him a bit, 
I was really very sorry for him, poor fellow; he felt 
the cold so badly. It seemed to catch him higher up 
than in my case. I fancy that the practice of having 
a cold bath every morning perhaps makes one less 
sensitive. 
Sailor thought nothing of it, though he had to swim. 
Dogs must look. on us as very poor and imperfect 
creatures in view of the fuss we make over a thing so 
simple to them. 
Under the cross I found a wooden implement which 
I took for a paddle. I thought possibly it had belonged 
to one of the poor Raskolniks, but I know now that 
it was a Samoyed dough-trowel or spatula, and that 
this was therefore a Samoyed grave. All of which will 
appear later on. 
Just after this we came upon a fox-warren. If you 
