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0282 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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hidden around us. Under ordinary circum-
stances we should have proceeded 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 miss-
ing, that I realised 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 the 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