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The thermometer was at -38° when we started, and the same light but keen breeze was blowing that had annoyed us on the other side of the peninsula. What a barren, desolate region it is! low rocks sinking away to the dead level of the snow-field on the one hand, nothing but the ice-field on the other.
Grandmother said it reminded her of the Tree of Knowledge. We put sheets of cotton wool under it for a snow-field, and Jake’s pocket-mirror for a frozen lake.
They slept there, and were to rise at four for the snow-field. They were up and away before the light, taking only one guide with them, a sinewy, dark man with a clubbed beard on his chin. If they had had two it had been better, and Urquhart, who knew that, made a great fuss; but to no purpose. All the men were at the sæters, they were told; haymaking was in full swing out there.
"You needn't mind a bit," she told him. "He has terrified me. I'm not adventurous at all; besides " "Besides ?" "No, no, not now." She would say nothing more. An expedition was made to the foot of the snow-field for the benefit of the boys. From a distance they saw the great cornice, and the plateau where James had watched by Urquhart. Lancelot was here confronted with irony for the first time.
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