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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I'm afraid! Oh, Martin I'm afraid." Ruth reached little trembling hands to her tall brother. "Come!" Norhala called again. There was an echo of harshness, a clanging, peremptory and inexorable, in the chiming. Ventnor shrugged his shoulders. "Come, then," he said. With one last look at the Chinese, the lammergeiers already circling about him, we walked to the crevice.
Bird-life abounded, from the snow partridges that flew in the hills eighteen thousand feet high to pigeons of every kind: birds of all sizes, from great eagles to the little quails that hid in the cornfields; lammergeiers that were fed on human bodies, the dead of families of high degree, exposed on a flat rock of slate with head and shoulders tied to a wooden axle that stretched the corpse like a rack.
High up in the darkening heavens the lammergeiers, the winged scavengers of the Himalayas, were gathering. The woman lifted her hand, beckoned us once more. Slowly we walked toward her, stood before her. The great clear eyes searched us but no more intently than our own wondering eyes did her. We looked upon a vision of loveliness such, I think, as none has beheld since Trojan Helen was a maid.
The first floor of the forest, that is to say all that portion of the trees comprised between the first fork and the branches, afforded an asylum to a great number of birds wild pigeons by the hundred beneath the trees, ospreys, grouse, aracaris with beaks like a lobster's claw, and higher, hovering above the glades, two or three of those lammergeiers whose eye resembles a cockade.
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