Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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All five swung together in a heap.
The ladies screamed and would have loosened themselves, but that moment the windlass began to move, and up they went, dangling towards the little star of daylight, two hundred feet above.
Under them hung one of the boys to steady the wearing mass, and the little scump amused himself by swinging his lamp, cracking his heels together, and rattling his stick along the sides of the shaft.
When our turn came, I found, in spite of myself, that such pastime was not calculated to steady my nerves.
The sound of the stick was very much like that of snapping ropes, and my brain swam a little at finding my feet dangling over what seemed a bottomless abyss of darkness.
The arrival at the top was like a douche of lightning.
It was just noon, and the hot, white, blinding day poured full upon us, stinging our eyes like needles, and almost taking away our breath.
We were at once beset with a crowd of beggars and salt vendors.
The latter profered a multitude of small articles, crosses, stars, images, books, cups, dishes, etc, cut from the native crystal, and not distinguishable from glass in appearance.
I purchased a salt cellar, which has the property of furnishing salt when it is empty, but it seemed to me that I should not need to use it for some days.
I felt myself so thoroughly impregnated with salt that I conceived the idea of seasoning my soup by stirring it with my fingers, and half expecting that the fresh roast would turn to corned beef in my mouth.
And of the Salt Mines of Vilichka eighteen fifty by Bayard Taylor.
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