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4fery faithful to me during this excurfion, being; very active and 

 hardy: I do not knov/ it I could have gone through this fa- 

 tigue had it not been for his affifl'ancc. 1 now determined to 

 commence this day's route up the ravin, as it feemed to widen 

 and apparently run a confiderable way up in the direction i 

 wifhed for; and if I conld get out of it upon the other ridge, 

 it would at leafl be two miles nearer than the way I had at- 

 tempted yefterday, and probably, after getting out of it, I 

 might find wood eafier of accefs. In this ravin I got up about 

 a mile and a half, without meeting with any conhderable ob- 

 flru6tion. Encouraged by getting fo fiir, although the ravin, 

 was narrowing faft, with numbers of rocks and precipices to= 

 climb over, w^ith vines and bullies difficult to get through, I 

 was refolved to periifl in' this route, and determined by every 

 poffible means to get to the objedl of my wifbes,. well knowing 

 if I could not perform it this way, I might abandon it entirely,. 

 After climbing over a number of difficult paffes, the ravin ter- 

 minated at the bottom of a very high precipice ; how far it 

 was to the fumimit I did not know, being covered toward the 

 top with thick wood ; but from the bottom upwards it 

 was loofe fand as for as I could fee, with ferns and tufts of 

 grafs, which, as foon as I took hold of them, came out 

 at the roots. The precipice being fo very flieep, with no trees 

 or buffies on it to affift tnQ in getting up, I plainly faw the at- 

 tempting to climb it' was at the rilk of my life: however, I 

 was refolved to try it, and telling the boy to keep fome diftance 

 behind me, in cafe I ffiould tumble and drive him down along 

 with me, I began to afcend, holding the tufts cf grafs a-s 

 lightly as poflibie, and digging holes with my cutlafs to put 

 my feet in ; but I often loft my hold, and frequently Hipped 

 dowu a confiderable diftance ; however, as it was nothing but- 



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