ids, but in vain. Their forms, snows, and glaciers are
insurmountable obstacles: the distance being so great from the
commencement of the icy region to the highest points, cold alone
would be the destruction of any one who had the hardihood to
persevere."

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

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The following typographical errors have been corrected:

page 82, period changed to comma (after "was")
page 140, "Siberan" changed to "Siberian"

Inconsistent hyphenation (_e. g._ "footsteps" and "foot-steps",
"innkeeper" and "inn-keeper", "moonlight" and "moon-light", "pigtails" and
"pig-tails", "wickerwork" and "wicker-work"), punctuation or italicizing
has not been changed. The authors use both "Yengiz" and "Yenghiz",
"bakshish" and "baksheesh", "pilaff" and "pillao".

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