. Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. Etherton, Percy Thomas, 1874-; Hunting -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Description and travel. A Cheerless Camp. through which a couple of cats bounded at intervals, chasing each other round and round presumably to get warm and prevent themselves being mummified into frozen examples of the feline race. Despite the fact that I had the stove going there were 31 degrees of frost in my room, and as I discussed my frugal dinner I thought of cheerier pl
. Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia. Etherton, Percy Thomas, 1874-; Hunting -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Description and travel. A Cheerless Camp. through which a couple of cats bounded at intervals, chasing each other round and round presumably to get warm and prevent themselves being mummified into frozen examples of the feline race. Despite the fact that I had the stove going there were 31 degrees of frost in my room, and as I discussed my frugal dinner I thought of cheerier places to pass the night in. The servants shared the other room with the proprietor, and were also provided with a stove; but there was no outlet for the smoke which would have stifled an army of bees. Giyani was making. A, HALT ON THE MONGOLIAN STEPPES. desperate efforts to open an ancient window and lessen the evil, in which he finalh' succeeded. It was too cold to write so I retired to bed and read Boswell's " Life of Johnson," trying to imagine I, too, was in the more congenial neighbourhood of Picca- dilly and the Strand. On awaking next morning I peeped forth into the gloom, the air being keen and the thermometer at 15 degrees below zero to still further temper the atmosphere. Yusuf came in soon after and set the stove going, but even at its best we could not bring the thermometer higher than something below the freezing point. 349. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Etherton, P. T. (Percy Thomas), b. 1879. London, Constable and Company, Ltd.
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