]
[Footnote 20: See the section of this cave and pit on page 41.]
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CHAPTER IV.
THE UPPER GLACIERE OF THE PRE DE S. LIVRES.
We now put ourselves under the guidance of the accomplice, Louis, who
began to express doubts of his ability to find the upper glaciere,
administering consolation by reminding us that if he could not find it
no one else could.
As we walked on through the mist and rain, it became necessary to
circumvent a fierce-looking bull, and Mignot and the accomplice told
rival tales of the dangers to which pedestrians are exposed from the
violence of the cattle on some montagnes, where the bulls are allowed
to grow to full size and fierceness. Mignot was quite motherly in his
advice and his cautions, recommending as the surest safeguard a
pocket-pistol, loaded with powder only, to be flashed in the bull's
face as he makes his charge. When informed that in England an umbrella
or a parasol is found to answer this purpose, he shook his head
negatively, evidently having no confidence in his own umbrella, and
doubting its obeying his wishes at the critical moment; indeed, it
would require a considerable time, and much care and labour, to unfurl
a lumbering instrument of that description.
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