Our boys in India . use as theyleaped over the rocks after the goats, to make a salaam tothe white sahib, and wish him a godspeed (the speed of aheathen god, at least) down out of the mountains. Going as he did, Paulfound a trip through theHimalayas a very mucheasier affair than manyolder ones have found did not realize thedangers of the had not been toldthat he should be dizzy,and that his head shouldswim, as he looked downthose perpendicular cliffs,sometimes three thou-sand feet and more intothe black gorges, wherehe could not even distin-guish the great toweringdeodars: s
Our boys in India . use as theyleaped over the rocks after the goats, to make a salaam tothe white sahib, and wish him a godspeed (the speed of aheathen god, at least) down out of the mountains. Going as he did, Paulfound a trip through theHimalayas a very mucheasier affair than manyolder ones have found did not realize thedangers of the had not been toldthat he should be dizzy,and that his head shouldswim, as he looked downthose perpendicular cliffs,sometimes three thou-sand feet and more intothe black gorges, wherehe could not even distin-guish the great toweringdeodars: so, holding fast to Dhondarams hand, he lookeddown and laughed, and pretended he was about to jump, tosee the muni spring and catch him. He would sometimes even laugh on the trembling birch-branch bridges crossing the deep gorges. What did he carefor the roaring mountain rivers, though they were five hun-dred feet below ? He would have stood under an avalanche,tearing down the mountain-side, and jumped for joy to see. SHEPHERDESS.
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