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We went into camp on that wild spot to which that ram1 had brought us. The men were greatly fatigued2. Their conviction that we were lost was forgotten in the cheer of a good supper, and before the reaction had a chance to set in, I loaded them up with paregoric and put them to bed.
Next morning I was considering in my mind our desperate situation and trying to think of a remedy, when Harris came to me with a Baedeker map which showed conclusively3 that the mountain we were on was still in Switzerland—yes, every part of it was in Switzerland. So we were not lost, after all. This was an immense relief; it lifted the weight of two such mountains from my breast. I immediately had the news disseminated4 and the map was exhibited. The effect was wonderful. As soon as the men saw with their own eyes that they knew where they were, and that it was only the summit that was lost and not themselves, they cheered up instantly and said with one accord, let the summit take care of itself.
Our distresses5 being at an end, I now determined6 to rest the men in camp and give the scientific department of the Expedition a chance. First, I made a barometric7 observation, to get our altitude, but I could not perceive that there was any result. I knew, by my scientific reading, that either thermometers or barometers8 ought to be boiled, to make them accurate; I did not know which it was, so I boiled them both. There was still no result; so I examined these instruments and discovered that they possessed10 radical11
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ram
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| (random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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apparatus
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swell
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impair
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precipice
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oversight
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peculiar
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dynamite
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glacier
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champagne
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grandee
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enchantment
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