Tyrol and the Tyrolese: The People and the Land in Their Social, Sporting, and Mountaineering Aspects

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Longmans, 1876 - Всего страниц: 278

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Стр. 22 - Oberinnthal, many of the villagers come to church with crampons ' on their feet, the terribly steep slopes on which their huts are built, somewhat like a swallow's nest on a wall, requiring this precautionary measure, and they are so accustomed to wear them constantly on their feet during the week that on the Sunday they even come to church with them. In Moos, a village not very far from the Brenner, having a population of 800 inhabitants, more than 300 men and women have been killed since 1758 by...
Стр. 67 - All these capers, jumps, and evolutions are accompanied by loud shrill whistling and peculiar smacking sounds of the lips and tongue, in imitation of those emitted by the blackcock and capercaillie. Indeed many of their movements too are performed with a view to outdo the capers and circling jumps and spinning motion performed by these love-sick birds of the mountains. The accompanying sounding slaps on the muscular thighs and on the iron-shod soles of the heavy shoes by the brawny horny hands of...
Стр. 28 - I was pressed for time, and had a walk of two or three hours' before me, got rid of this proposal, only, however, to get me into a worse scrape. Asking me if I was going to Kals, he seemed quite astonished to hear that it was nearly three hours off, whereupon he informed his relatives of the unwelcome piece of information gleaned from 'this fellow,' pointing to me. Hardly able to suppress my laughter, but desiring to retain my incognito, I was just going to pass on, when my interrogator asked me...

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