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CHAPTER XIII. 



During the second week of our stay at Alinissa 

 (the reason for our extended sojourn there will be 

 given further on) the weather was worse than the 

 first. In fact, it reached a climax on the 3rd of 

 October, when, after a wet night, it poured all 

 day, and such rain I have rarely seen. Unfortu- 

 nately the straining canvas drew the centre iron, 

 and the now slack tent utterly failed to keep out 

 the wet. Luckily, we were able to take refuge for 

 the night in one of the tumbledown dormitories of 

 the old seminary. Next morning was fine enough 

 to dry the tent, and then I struck it and got it 

 under cover, and fortunate it was that I did so, 

 for that evening it poured again as hard as ever. 



We had been hanging on at Priko in the hope 

 of moving camp to the Palls of Duare by pack 

 transport, and thence back to the sea at Brela. 

 From this village our next camp would probably 

 have been Zostrog. We now renounced this plan, 

 as it involved two consecutive fine days — one to 

 dry the tent sufficiently not to overload a mule, 



