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year ;i( a tai'm'l ami dtlici-wisc. ;iii(l had had tiiil\- unc dilier 

 iiiiss-lii-c. 



ll will lu' iiiidcrstood thai after thi> >nv\ ofililn- I had 

 to 2;o on till sninci liiii"' hapiiciictl. Imi a.> I iiaNc said, it 

 was iml till iii\- liiiirih \i>ii to ihc di>irict that I srciircd 

 a lirad woiih rduniniLi. It ••aiiic iii this wa\'. T here is, 

 on ihe soiuhi'rii llaiii< of ihe vaHev, a ver\' wide comiche 

 witli s1i(>er cliffs Ixitli almve and liehiw it. wdnch ai'c without 

 a hreak hir .several miles. Il is comparatively free from 

 serul), ami. Iieiiiu; very rouu'li and broken, is often resorted to 

 hy the boncjnetin if the lower woods have been iiiiKdi driven. 

 ^\ e hail dri\('ii it on tliat occasion without result, hut 

 Antonio who had been |ilace(l as a stop, had seen two 

 niale> on a tin\' ledi^e on the lace of the u[»[)er ebll'. Tliis 

 ledge was far above ns, and barely traceable from where 

 we stood. He said that (Uie was ver\' old and walkeil 

 lame. The men had to make a detour of s!.\ miles to 

 rea<di the other extrennt w but le-t the u'oats should take 

 it into t heir heads to siiil't . we made haste to 'juanl our end. 

 We were assured that this ledui;c. though nowhere more 

 than two feet wide. wa> I'oniimious for five miles. Indeed 

 the elill .-eeineil like a wall, lail a man could easd\ |)ass 

 aloni;- this little shell', for the wiiole distance. prociJiil tlic 

 rocks irei'e '//'//. There were jilaees which ihc men. bold 

 (dimbcrs as tlie\- were, would not attem|il wlnn the surface 

 was moist. <U\r man would of course have been >ut]icieiit. 

 but, lest they should iict in our way, we sent them, all but 

 one. to make the l(»nu round, and they canu' alonu it in 

 Indian lile. One experienced old haml we retained to 

 show us the way up to our posts, as the ascent was com- 

 plicated and ditlicult. At this point the clilf was some- 



