![]() ![]() Slavomir relates how he was imprisoned in Russia just before the start of World War II. I felt suddenly bereft of friends, bereft of everything, as desolate and lonely as a man could be. > The bus pulled away towards the transit camp where I was to await a troopship for the Middle East. The minimum height of a well-grown specimen must be around seven feet. I do insist, however, that recent estimates of their height as about five feet must be wrong. > What were they? For years they remained a mystery to me, but since recently I have read of scientific expeditions to discover the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and studied descriptions of the creature given by native hillmen, I believe that on that day we may have encountered two of the animals. At each death the men behind the vacant space were moved up and the varying lengths of spare chain were an indication of the casualty rate in each group. > The length of chain dragging in the snow at the end of each section of prisoners told the tale of the men who had fallen out on the way. Three star fiction, minus one for claiming to be true. ![]()
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