Word: cliftoni
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...thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found. Talbot "ate it thoughtfully, for was it not about 8,000 years...
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