Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)
Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 268
CHAP. 1X. ] MARMOT LIFE. 241 boulder, the marmot was too quick for us, and opened a way out before we could reach it. After the hunt, I made a sketch of the Schreckhorn, enjoyed a good meal and a cup of coffee, then lay down upon the sheepskin with my knapsack for a pillow, and covering myself over… … When my companions retired for the night, Bohren roused me up, and tried hard to persuade me to enter their burrow under the rock; but I did not like the look of it, so, find- ing me determined to stay where I was, he disappeared with the others, crawling backwards through the hole, and I once more…
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