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| 7 | 143 | If the View more quotes about herd">herd of Tancred had indeed emerged from the forests why had it not yet crossed Ax Glacier? Surely hunters, even in great numbers, could not stay the avalanche of such a herd, which consisted of doubtless two to three hundred thousand animals. |
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| 7 | 140 | "There are other herds," he said. |
| 7 | 141 | "That is true," I said. |
| 7 | 142 | But I was puzzled. |
| 7 | 143 | If the herd of Tancred had indeed emerged from the forests why had it not yet crossed Ax Glacier? Surely hunters, even in great numbers, could not stay the avalanche of such a herd, which consisted of doubtless two to three hundred thousand animals. |
| 7 | 144 | It was one of the largest migratory herds of tabuk on the planet. |
| 7 | 145 | Unfortunately for the red hunters, it was also the only one which crossed Ax Glacier to summer in the polar basin. |
| 7 | 146 | To turn such a herd from its migratory destination would be less easy than to turn the course of a flood. |