You will come across them if you go north, and I can recommend them as excellent beaters." "Is the north the best shooting quarter ?" asked Lewis with sharp eyes.
"I am just a little keen on some geographical work, and if I can join both I shall be glad.

Due north is the Russian frontier?
"Due north after some scores of the most precipitous miles in the world.
It is a preposterous country.

I myself have been on the verge of it, and know it as well as most.

The geographical importance, too, is absurdly exaggerated.

It has never been mapped because there is nothing about it to map, no passes, no river, no conspicuous mountain, nothing but desolate, unvaried rock.