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- XVII. Across the Tundra to the Anabar
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and rendering our journey both difficult and dangerous.
Now and again the caravan would suddenly come to a full
stop in front of a crevasse yawning before us, the bottom
of which was completely invisible because of the fog. Then
we would have to lead the animals long distances to
find a way out of the labyrinth of these obstacles which
seemed to surround us, or to discover a place where we
could cross. Sometimes our sledges would fall through a
treacherous bridge of snow and ice into one of these
crevasses, out of which it and the animals had to be hauled
and lifted as best we could. It was a wonder that no more
serious accidents occurred than broken sledges, which were
soon mended by the clever Tunguses, and it was no less
remarkable that the natives never lost the right direction
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