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up a nasty place where the rocks 

 had split leaving a crack about two 

 feet wide. A dead tree had gotten 

 jammed into it upside down, and 

 up this tree with the branches all 

 going the wrong way, we crawled. 

 It was as slippery as glass and the 

 sharp branches jagged. A misstep 

 would have sent us down into 

 well, I did not care to examine 

 where. When we got up to the 

 top I had to pass up my rifle and 

 pack, before I could manage it- 

 we found ourselves at the head of 

 a draw in a clump of trees, near a 

 tiny stream. It was what the Cap'n 

 had been looking for ever since day- 

 break, but he's such a mute some- 

 times, he gave me no hint. 



We had breakfast and lay there 

 for two hours. The sun grew 

 stronger, the whole world changed 

 to radiance and beauty. I moved 

 from the fire and stretched out in 

 the full glare of the sun, comfort- 

 ably cooking, and feeling a delicious 

 sense of rest. We stayed till eleven 

 o'clock, when Lusk, who had climbed 

 up a cliff to look around, motioned 

 me to come. Being once more cap- 



