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Finally, after three hours’ hard climb- 
ing, we emerged from the forest on to 
a great bare shoulder of the mountain, 
from which the whole country around, 
vast and beautiful, could be seen. We 
took bearings and tried to locate that 
lake, and we finally decided that a 
wooded basin three miles away looked 
likely to contain it. 
In order to get to it, we had to cross 
a wooded ravine, very steep and torn 
out by a recent cloudburst. We rode 
the horses down places that I shudder 
in remembering, and I had great 
trouble in keeping away from the front 
feet of my horse as I led him, especially 
when there were little gullies that had 
to be jumped. j 
It was exciting enough, and hard 
work, too, every nerve on a tingle and 
one’s heart thumping with the unwont- 
