Somewhere up on these heights, for the first and only time during my trip, I nearly collided head-on with another vehicle. That is one of the minor excitements of hill-climbing on these roads; and considering the thousands of bends I had rounded and the number of buses and lorries one meets on the road, I was lucky not to have had any serious accident. My car was climbing slowly on the right side of the bend, on the outside near the precipice, when the bus came sweeping round on that side; had sounded my horn, the bus Hat not, they never do. To avoid a collision (and whatever might have hap-
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