. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . eive. Feeling a little uncomfortable after such a warning, onreaching our rooms we instituted a search; the walls wereliterally lined with an army of invaders, and for the nexttwo hours the battle raged fiercely; there was a slipper,a handkerchief, a high-heeled boot, and the courage ofdespair on one side; on the other, the immensity of num-bers, and a spirit of daring utterly reckless of conse-quences ; the slaughter was terrible, but the mosquitoesremained virtually masters of the field. Of course wewould not allow that we were beaten, and we did liedown a
. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . eive. Feeling a little uncomfortable after such a warning, onreaching our rooms we instituted a search; the walls wereliterally lined with an army of invaders, and for the nexttwo hours the battle raged fiercely; there was a slipper,a handkerchief, a high-heeled boot, and the courage ofdespair on one side; on the other, the immensity of num-bers, and a spirit of daring utterly reckless of conse-quences ; the slaughter was terrible, but the mosquitoesremained virtually masters of the field. Of course wewould not allow that we were beaten, and we did liedown and even tried to sleep, trusting feebly in the pro-tection of our gauze draperies, and then the enemy hadtheir revenge; under the cover of night they made freshapproaches and prepared to destroy us by wholesale con-sumption. Had sufficient time been given them, theymight have succeeded in their object, but with the firstdawn of day we reasserted ourselves and sat up—feebleindeed and exhausted, but with sufficient strength to pre-. Ou/T fn%t artaiA TL tncrny tcu elioTge. ctgcui
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