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A LITTLE PASS:

contemptuous disregard of the great lump of ice, and putting his back against it, squeezed round the corner with great facility. Being thus at a

A STREET IN COURMAYEUR.

higher level, he was able to step on to the axes that Collie and I held wedged across the chasm, and thus avoided the main difficulties of the passage.