This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...about every half mile. We found the forest slopes frozen for about 20 miles. Before we had travelled half the distance we had been through all the antics and positions possible on horseback, from sliding down the slope on the horse's back to dragging the helpless animal up some very steep slope. It is surprising what ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...about every half mile. We found the forest slopes frozen for about 20 miles. Before we had travelled half the distance we had been through all the antics and positions possible on horseback, from sliding down the slope on the horse's back to dragging the helpless animal up some very steep slope. It is surprising what one can grow accustomed to, even to tumbling and getting the horse up again without losing the stirrups, by merely jerking him up by the aid of the bridle, with one leg pushing against the slope; and scraping between thin trees by using all one's strength to push them apart. The snow was usually deep and soft at the bottom of the slope, with ice-glazed ground underneath, but on the higher slopes it had all slipped down, leaving the ice-glazed slope, and making it much more difficult for a horse to stand. With the exceptions of halts to extricate a fallen horse or to re-arrange the baggage, we were in our saddles for nine hours, there being no convenient spot at which to call a halt. There was no track, and our horses had frequently to pick their way among the fallen trees scattered over the frozen slopes, making riding an increasingly difficult task. The trees in this part of the country, which are principally firs, are very tall and graceful, tapering to a fine point at the crown and almost devoid of branches. Their shape at the base is rather peculiar and different from that of any trees of the same species that I have ever seen. The first 8 or 10 feet are relatively much thicker than the rest of the tree. These trees do not grow in the valleys, but only on the mountain slopes and down to the water's edge. Our hunters were constantly on the lookout for bears, Ovis Ammon, ibex or other big game, and we saw by my Zeiss binocular several herds o...
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