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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
210 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VIII.
turning we should have to take, and with that
amount of consolation we had to settle down
for the night.
We now had our first taste of real cold. We
were about fifteen thousand feet above the sea-
level, and as soon as the sun set one could almost
see the cold stealing over the mountains —a cold
grey crept over them, the running streams
became coated with ice, and as soon as we had
had our dinner we always dined together, to
save trouble and time in cooking—and dark-
ness had fairly fallen, we took up our beddings
from the places where we had ostentatiously
laid them out to mislead any prowling Kanjutis,
and hurried off to deposit them behind any
rock which would shelter us from the icy wind
which blew down from the mountains. I t is a
curious fact, but when real difficulties seem to
be closing around, one's spirits rise. As long
as you have health that is the main point to
look after, but it is easily attained in mountain
travel and provided that you take plenty of
food, difficulties seem only to make you more
and more cheery. Instead of depressing you,
they only serve to brace up all your faculties to
their highest pitch ; and though, as I lay down
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