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Title: The Cliff Climbers
A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"

Author: Captain Mayne Reid

Illustrator: E. Evans

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21239]

Language: English

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The Cliff Climbers
A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"

By Captain Mayne Reid
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The book begins with two young brothers and an Indian guide, in a valley
in the Himalayas, into which they had ascended with some difficulty in
the preceding book - "The Plant Hunters".

Unfortunately they find they cannot get out at the top of the valley,
and they cannot go back the way they came. So they are stuck.

They try various ingenious ideas for getting out, each of which appears
as though it would work, but in the end does not, usually in a quite
entertaining way. Eventually they do think of a way, which I will not
divulge here, and they get out, but it had been a long nerve-racking
period before their final release.

The copy of the book I worked from looked at first sight as though it
had been beautifully printed. But this turned out to be a delusion, for
the type-setting had been truly awful. It does seem sad that an author,
a well-known one at the time, could take the trouble to write a good
book, that he should use a good publisher, and a good illustrator, a
good book-binder, only to have the whole thing let down by very poor
type-setting. And that goes on down to proof-reading, too, for the
publisher should have checked all this as well. NH
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THE CLIFF CLIMBERS
A SEQUEL TO "THE PLANT HUNTERS"

BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID

CHAPTER ONE.

THE HIMALAYAS.

Who has not heard of the Himalayas--those Titanic masses of mountains
that interpose themselves between the hot plains of India and the cold
table-lands of Thibet--a worthy barrier between the two greatest empires
in the world, the Mogul and the Celestial? The v