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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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peaches, pear and apple trees—came into full leaf, and spring
in all its freshness of beauty had blossomed into life.
With the spring the looks of the people lost their winter
gloom. It would be hard for these mountain people to be any-
thing but gloomy, or think of anything else than "stratagems
and spoils," when all their surroundings, indoors and out, are
so depressing as they are in winter, when there is no outdoor
work to be done, and they can only brood and contemplate.
But everything is different when spring comes on. Then they
have to go out to work in the fields; they have the warm
bright sunshine, and growing crops, and blooming orchards,
and the fresh green of the trees to cheer them. During
the winter we had had more than one scare of attacks and
conspiracies and plots of various kinds. But as the people
found more to occupy their minds, and as they saw the Mehtar
establishing his position in the presence of the British mission
in the country, these ugly rumours grew less frequent, and the
disposition of the people more favourable.
We were now able to make little excursions, and Bruce
and I had a very delightful climb up the ridge of mountains
behind Chitral. Bruce had with him four Gurkhas from his
regiment. Two of these had been with him on Sir William
Conway's explorations and climbs in the Karakoram Range.
He had also the appliances of Alpine mountaineering—ice-
axes, ropes, climbing-irons, etc. So, for the first time in my
life, I was able to do a climb in the orthodox Alpine-club
manner. Our first night we spent on a grassy patch, high up
the mountain-side, at the edge of a pine forest, and we imme-
diately felt a sense of relief at having some breadth of view
before us, something to look out upon instead of being cooped
up in the narrow valley below. The next day we made our
way along a ridge through deep snow, and bivouacked directly
under the peak we were going to attack. Then, on the following
morning, the ice-axes and ropes came into play, and Bruce and
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