. The wilds of Patagonia; a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909 . lley on the other side of the pass. Butwe had also seen something else before the foggy wallshut out everything round us. Beneath our feetstretched an unknown valley, red, brown, and yellowlike the Betbeder valley, and in numerous serpentinesa river wound through the peat-bogs, coming from theglaciers on the south side of Mount Svea, while in aside valley we perceived a small mountain lake thatdischarged into the river. Then the curtain fell; violentsnow-squall
. The wilds of Patagonia; a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909 . lley on the other side of the pass. Butwe had also seen something else before the foggy wallshut out everything round us. Beneath our feetstretched an unknown valley, red, brown, and yellowlike the Betbeder valley, and in numerous serpentinesa river wound through the peat-bogs, coming from theglaciers on the south side of Mount Svea, while in aside valley we perceived a small mountain lake thatdischarged into the river. Then the curtain fell; violentsnow-squalls forced us to return, and, groping in thedebris, half blind with the snow, we came down to thefire with the night. Snow continued to fall, but suppertasted better than ever, and the flakes quickly meltedin the hot cocoa. Later the sky cleared. Cross andCentaur gUttered. Well have a dry night, we said,and crept into the bags. It was a strange awakening. Certainly I had felt,half asleep, that the bag was growing heavier and thatwater was trickling in from the pillow (my coat andtrousers), but I shook off the snow, pulled the hood. The Betbp:i)ER Valley.
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