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Image from page 132 of “After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia;” (1900)

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Title: After wild sheep in the Altai and Mongolia;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Demidov, Elim Pavlovich, principe di San Donato, 1867-
Subjects: Hunting — Mongolia
Publisher: London, R. Ward
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d that the few that remained hadtaken refuge in the wooded districts on the Siberianside. We also saw a great number of sheep horns inthe bed of the stream, whose owners had probablybeen killed by wolves, or had been starved to deathby severe winters and heavy snowfalls. The countrybore altogether a touch of wildness and desolation.Towards noon we were caught in a dreadful hail-storm, and returned to camp at 3 p.m. with mywell – deserved trophy. I found Littledale in lowspirits ; his hunters had taken him by mistake tomy ground, and he had convinced himself of theerror by discovering our party as we were enteringthe Happy Valley. That evening Vassili, the cook, produced fordinner roast fillet of kotc/ikor, which we found A FRESH START 117 excellent. As for the broth, it was quite good, andhenceforward replaced Maggis cousommd, which wehad been constantly using. Later on in the season,when the animals became fatter, we had to abandontheir meat, owing to their strong sheepy flavour, for

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RETURNING TO CAMP. that of their domestic kinsmen, where stray Kirghizprocured us the latter. On the following morning,June 21st, the wind had not abated, and it was nottill 7 a.m. that we left camp. This time Littledalewent towards my old nullah where I had twice beensuccessful. As for myself, I started with Taba inthe direction of the valley westwards. It was n8 AFTER WILD SHEEP IN THE ALTAI certainly not a promising day, and we rode a longway without even expecting to see anything. Thevalley was a wider one than that of Bain-Tchagan,with more overhanging crags on either side andno nice boulders with fresh grass between. At thebottom flowed a small, nameless stream, forminghere and there small lakes and swamps. We spiedan immense side-corry to our left, but saw nothingbut rocks and snow. A little further I discovereda herd of female Ibex on the opposite side, probablythe same which Littledale had seen two days pre-viously, but no signs of males ; in fact, the placedid not in the lea

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Image from page 49 of “Through South Westland : A journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring New Zealand” (1900)

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Title: Through South Westland : A journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring New Zealand
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Moreland, A. Maud
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a pea, which he had linked togetherwith gold rings. Surely that is very valuable,I said. May be a matter o fifteen pounds, hereplied, but I would not part with it for that andmore. Beside the house the brawling Taipo riversweeps down from the hills, where they said therewas still much gold, could it but be found.Taipo was the embodiment of peace—a place toslumber in, for since the railway was made, fewerand fewer seem to care to spend their time as wewere doing: the towns are the attraction for thecountry dwellers. We left it to its sleep, feelinghost, servitor, and inn would soon all be atrest. As evening drew on we entered a country whichhas been utterly changed by gold mining. Hillshave been torn down, valleys have been made ;the whole countryside was a series of scars andfurrows on a gigantic scale. Desolation spread around in blackened tree-stumps and heaps of stones, the mangled remainsof what had been once the virgin bush. But itwas all still and silent. Rude wooden tramways

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OTIRA:THE SUX-FLECKED WOODLAXD WAY. [13 THEOUGH THE OTIRA. 13 still ran among the hills, and broken sheds therewere, and sometimes a rusty engine ; but thediggers had moved across the river, and wemet no one. The vaUey below us lay in a mist like thin bluesmoke, through wliich the tree-tops pierced likedomes and spires ; high above the evening shadowstwo snowy domes were touched wdth rose andsaffron. But the light soon faded, and our roadwoiuid down between the blackened tree-stumpsto a forlorn little mining town of wretched woodenhouses. It was caUed Dilhnanstown, and seemedto be aU saloons and pubs, and these mostly shutup. Vainly we looked among them for anythingtliat seemed to promise a nights shelter. \Vlienwe asked for such, the men and women at thecorner of the street stared at us increduously.Then they consulted together, and one sent for hiswife, who appeared at the door with a baby in herarms. Giving us one look, she remarked shortly : Its Kumara they want. This isnt Kumara

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Image from page 214 of “The International library of famous literature, selections from the world’s great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers” (1900) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world’s great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
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and made it the mostbrilliant in Great Britain ; contributed to Blackicoods and Bentleifs later ; andin 1838 he wrote tlie Homeric Ballads for Frasers. His literary feuds v/ereendless and savage. After running down for years and once being in a debtorsprison (Thackeray portrays him as Captain Shaudon iu Pendenui3),hedied August 21, 1842.] The churchyard of Inistubber is as lonely a one as youwould wish to see on a summers day or avoid on a wintersnight. It is situated in a narrow valley, at the bottom ofthree low, barren, miserable hills, on which there is nothinggreen to meet the eye — tree or shrub, grass or weed. Thecountry beyond these hills is pleasant and smiling : rich fieldsof corn, fair clumps of oaks, sparkling streams of water, housesbeautifully dotting tlie scenery, which gently midulates roundand round as far as the eye can reach ; but once across thenorth side of Inistubber Hill, and you look upon desolation.There is nothing to see but, down in the hollow, the solitary

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Oj —^ if *= rt be O St- — 0^ -** A VISION OF PURGATORY. 5517 churchyard with its broken wall, and the long lank grass grow-ing over the gravestones, mocking with its melancholy verdurethe barrenness of the rest of the landscape. It is a sad thingto reflect that the only green spot in the prospect springs fromthe grave 1 Under the east window is a moldering vault of the DeLacys, a branch of a family descended from one of the con-querors of Ireland ; and there they are buried when the allottedtime calls them to the tomb. On these occasions a numerouscavalcade, formed from the adjoining districts in all the pompand circumstance of woe, is wont to fill the deserted church-yard, and the slumbering echoes are awakened to the voice ofprayer and wailing, and charged with the sigh that marks theheart bursting with grief, or the laugh escaping from the bosommirth-making under the cloak of mourning. Which of thesefeelings was predominant when Sir Theodore de Lacy died isnot written in histor

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