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“ A TRAMP WITH REDSKINS.” 283 
Once more the relaxation of pain itself proved a great 
pleasure when, rejoined by the rest of the party, we 
climbed down the cliff, having to make a great detour to 
do so, and found awaiting us at the foot one of the boats 
which left us many weeks before on the banks of the 
Rupununi. And when, in this boat we shot, at a most 
exhilaratingly tremendous rate, down the many cata- 
raéts and rapids which still lay between us and the sea, 
and once more came into civilization. 
The story of the journey has now been told just as the 
memory of it remains in my mind, and without any inten- 
tion of drawing a moral from it. “Yet, at last, it seems 
that there are two morals to be drawn: one that a 
pleasure so great as to be conceivable only by experience, 
is to be had, even in this world of growing commonplace, 
from travel in places where the way has not yet been 
smoothed; the other is that there still exist human 
beings—and very lovable and in their way admirable 
human beings—who, entirely without the spectacles of 
civilization, see life in very bright colours but from an 
entirely different standpoint from that on which we look 
at it. 
