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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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long afterv>-ard3bore the poor creature a great affection. They said that during all this time hunger gave them butlittle uneasiness, except for thc/irst five or six days ; and theirgreatest pain was from the extreme coldness of the melted snowwater, which fell on them ; from the smell of the dead ass, goats,fowls, &;c.; but more than all, from the very uneasy posture theywvva confined to, the manger in which they sat squatting againstthe wall, being no more than three feet four inches broad. This interesting case of overwhelming by an avalanche, which*has been frequently printed, is not solitary in the annals ofSwitzerland. Instances of a similar nature, though more disastrousin causing loss of life, are of frequent occi.rrerice. A case ofoverwhelming, attended with circumstances very closely re-sembling those in the above narij^tive, happened as lately asthe spring of 1818. The village of La C jlle, in the lower Alps,was covered by an avalanche, which buried one of the houses
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THE AVALANCHE. 279 for a period of twenty-three days. At the end of that period,the villagers gained access to the house by digging away thesnow, when a man and a young girl were found in it alive. Bya most fortunate circumstuuce, these two persons, at the time ofthe fall, were together in a part of the dwelling in which were alltheir provisions, with a cow and a goat; and the milk of theseanimals, which they fed with potatoes and bread, distributed withthe most careful economy, had sufficed for their sustenanceduring their long and dismal captivity. It sometimes happens that the Swiss hunters engaged inthe pursuit of the chamois, their favourite game, fall intochasms and crevices of the rocks, and are buried by the snow,which is loosened by their fall. In this way many perish; butthere are instances on record of hunters rescued after severaldays of confinement in a horrid prison of this kind. THE THREE FRIENDS OF BRUSSELS. Some years ago there resided at Brussels three young men,name

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