Siberia and the exile system . about six hundred feet below us and shouted cheer-fully, Come on ! This is nothing! You could get downhere with a telega! Inasmuch as one could hardly lookdown there without getting dizzy, this was rather a hyper-bolical statement of the possibilities of the case; but it hadthe effect of silencing Mr. Frost, who took his horse by thebridle and followed me down the mountain in cautious zig-zags, while I kept as nearly as I could in the track of ourleader. At the buttress the guide tightened my forwardand after saddle-girths until my horse groaned and gruntedan ina
Siberia and the exile system . about six hundred feet below us and shouted cheer-fully, Come on ! This is nothing! You could get downhere with a telega! Inasmuch as one could hardly lookdown there without getting dizzy, this was rather a hyper-bolical statement of the possibilities of the case; but it hadthe effect of silencing Mr. Frost, who took his horse by thebridle and followed me down the mountain in cautious zig-zags, while I kept as nearly as I could in the track of ourleader. At the buttress the guide tightened my forwardand after saddle-girths until my horse groaned and gruntedan inarticulate protest, and I climbed again into the seemed to me safer, on the whole, to ride down than to BEIDLE PATHS OF THE ALTAI 223 try to walk down leciding my horse, since in the latter casehe was constantly sliding upon me, or dislodging loosestones which threatened to knock my legs from under meand launch me into space like a projectile from a first hundred feet of the descent were very bad. It was. THE DKSCENT INTO THE (ioRGE OF THE I almost impossible to keep in the saddle on account of thesteepness of the incline, and once I just escaped beingpitched over my horses head at the end of one of his shortslides. We finally reached a very steep but grassy slope, likethe side of a titanic embankment, down which we zigzagged,with much discomfort but without any danger, to the •).J4 SIBERIA hoUom of the Katun valley. As we rode towards tli(^ greatpeaks, and tinally, leaving our horses, climbed up on theprineipal glacier, I saw how greatly we had underestimateddistances, heights, and magnitudes, from the elevated
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