The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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Reid Mayne. The Plant Hunters: Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
Chapter One. The Plant-Hunter
Chapter Two. Karl Linden
Chapter Three. Caspar, Ossaroo, and Fritz
Chapter Four. Is it Blood?
Chapter Five. The Fishing-Birds
Chapter Six. The Teräi
Chapter Seven. Tapping the Palmyra
Chapter Eight. The Sambur Stag
Chapter Nine. A Night Marauder
Chapter Ten. A Talk about Tigers
Chapter Eleven. A Tiger taken by Birdlime
Chapter Twelve. A Rare Raft
Chapter Thirteen. The tallest Grass in the World
Chapter Fourteen. The Man-Eaters
Chapter Fifteen. The Death of the Man-Eater
Chapter Sixteen. Karl’s Adventure with the Long-Lipped Bear
Chapter Seventeen. Ossaroo in Trouble
Chapter Eighteen. The Axis and Panther
Chapter Nineteen. The Pests of the Tropics
Chapter Twenty. The Musk-Deer
Chapter Twenty One. The Glacier
Chapter Twenty Two. The Glacier Slide
Chapter Twenty Three. The Pass
Chapter Twenty Four. The Lone Mountain Valley
Chapter Twenty Five. Grunting Oxen
Chapter Twenty Six. The Yaks
Chapter Twenty Seven. Curing the Yak-Meat
Chapter Twenty Eight. The Boiling Spring
Chapter Twenty Nine. An Alarming Discovery
Chapter Thirty. Prospects and Precautions
Chapter Thirty One. Measuring the Crevasse
Chapter Thirty Two. The Hut
Chapter Thirty Three. The Barking-Deer
Chapter Thirty Four. The Argus-Pheasant
Chapter Thirty Five. Stalking the Yaks
Chapter Thirty Six. Caspar retreats to the Rock
Chapter Thirty Seven. Face to Face with a Fierce Bull
Chapter Thirty Eight. Caspar in the Cleft
Chapter Thirty Nine. The Serow
Chapter Forty. Ossaroo chased by Wild Dogs
Chapter Forty One. Ossaroo’s Revenge
Chapter Forty Two. The Crevasse Bridged
Chapter Forty Three. The Passage of the Crevasse
Chapter Forty Four. New Hopes
Chapter Forty Five. New Survey of the Cliff
Chapter Forty Six. Karl climbs the Ledge
Chapter Forty Seven. Karl in a Fix
Chapter Forty Eight. The Tibet Bear
Chapter Forty Nine. An Awkward Descent
Chapter Fifty. A Mysterious Monster
Chapter Fifty One “Bang.”
Chapter Fifty Two. Setting the Net
Chapter Fifty Three. Ossaroo stuck fast
Chapter Fifty Four. A Demand for Bear’s Grease
Chapter Fifty Five. Bear-Hunt by Torch-Light
Chapter Fifty Six. Lost in the Cave
Chapter Fifty Seven. A Ramble in the Dark
Chapter Fifty Eight. Cavern-Life
Chapter Fifty Nine. Exploration of the Cave
Chapter Sixty. Preserving the Bear’s-Meat
Chapter Sixty One. Dreams
Chapter Sixty Two. Hopes
Chapter Sixty Three. Light in Darkness
Chapter Sixty Four. Conclusion
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Karl Linden was a native of Upper Bavaria, near the Tyrolese frontier. Not high-born, for his father was a gardener; but, what is of more importance in modern days, well brought up and well educated. A gardener’s son may still be a gentleman; and so may a gardener himself, for that matter, or he may not. There are many senses to this much-abused title. It so happens, that young Linden was a gentleman in the true sense; that is, he was possessed of a feeling heart, a nice sense of honesty and honour, and was, notwithstanding his humble lineage, an educated and accomplished youth. His father, the gardener, was a man of ambitious spirit, though quite unlettered; and, having himself often experienced the disadvantage of this condition, he resolved that his son never should.
In most parts of Germany, education is considered a thing of value, and is eagerly sought after. It is provided liberally for all classes; and the Germans, as a people, are perhaps the best educated in the world. It is partly owing to this fact, and partly to their energetic industry, that they exercise so great an influence in the affairs of the world; in the arts and sciences, in music, painting, and the study of nature – above all, in a knowledge of botany. I cannot believe that the Germans stand highest as an intellectual race, but only as an educated people. What a pity I could not add, that they are a free people; but in that their condition differs less from our own than we fondly imagine.
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“But what ails you? are you ill?”
“No, Sahibs! me not ill – why my lords askee?”
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