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| The Heart of a Continent : vol.1 | |
| 大陸深奥部 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
1887.] CREVASSES.
softened down till lost, and their beauty in its purest form alone remained.
With our senses enervated by such a scene as this, and overcome with delight as we were at having successfully crossed the pass, we pushed on down the glacier in a dreamy, careless way, perfectly regardless of the dangers which lay hidden around us. Under ordinary circumstances we should have prôceeded cautiously down a glacier which, beautiful though it was, had its full share of crevasses ; and it was only when I turned round and found one man missing, that I realized how negligent we had been. We retraced our steps, and found the poor fellow had dropped down a crevasse, the mouth of which had been covered with a thin coating of ice and snow, which had given way under his weight, so that he had dropped through. Very fortunately, the crevasse was not wide, and after falling about fifteen feet, he had been wedged in between the two sides by the load of my bedding which he was carrying ; so by letting a rope down we were able to extricate him in safety. This taught us a lesson, and for the rest of the way we went along roped together, as we ought to have been from the first, and tested each step as we advanced.
I now kept in rear, and the man with my bedding was in front of me. As we were closed up during a temporary halt, I detected a strong smell of brandy coming from the bundle of
bedding. A distracting thought occurred to me. I tore open the bundle, and there was my last bottle of brandy broken !
Lady Walsham, on my leaving Peking, had insisted upon giving
me at least two bottles of brandy for the journey. I had drunk one in the Gobi Desert, and I had made up my mind to keep
the other till the day I had crossed the Mustagh Pass, but here
it was broken, and the brandy wasted, just when both the men and myself were really needing something to pull us together.
The bundle of bedding had been thrown over the pass to save carrying it down, and though the bottle had been wrapped
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