Round the back of Gibraltar Rock 
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my companions following. After a time I fancied I hearda 
cry and glancing behind me found I was alone! It was an 
anxious moment, and all sorts of horrors obtruded themselves 
into my imagination. Carefully retracing my steps, on rounding 
THE BACK OF THE ROCK. 
a rock I suddenly came upon the sailor lying at full length on 
an extremely narrow ledge, violently sick! The soldier who 
brought up the rear was naturally blocked in his advance and 
he it was whose shout I had heard. In reply to my anxious 
enquiries, the sick man cheerfully replied that he was “ only 
