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And Corporal Ripley, who was by no means a chechako, found himself taxed to the limit of his endurance, although never by word or sign did he indicate that the pace was other than of his own choosing. Fort McMurray, a ten- to fourteen-day trip under good conditions, was reached in seven days.
My coolies probably owing to having derived more pecuniary advantage than they expected during the journey from Chung-king decided to re-engage, and promised to complete the fourteen-day tramp to Chao-t'ong-fu, two hundred and ninety miles distant, if weather permitted, in eleven days. We were to travel by the following stages: Length of Height above stage sea
Now into the circle, one by one, came those who had dreamed and must be answered not as in the old-time and merry Feast of Dreams, where the rites were harmless and the mirth and jollity innocent, if rough for Amochol had perverted the ancient and innocent ceremony, making of a fourteen-day feast a sinister rite which ended in a single night.
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