^iz TRAVELS IN 
abandoning his ufual afylum, and replying to 
the bellowing of my animals by the moft hor- 
rid croaking. 
Situated as we were, the vicinity of ferocious 
beafts gave me no little uneafmefs. Being 
neceflarily feparated by the ruggednefs of the 
place, we were perfedly unable to affift each 
other, and had therefore every thing to appre- 
hend in cafe of attack. When obliged to pafs 
through a narrow and deep defile, we were ex- 
pofed to a danger of another kind. Enclofed 
between rocks piled one upon another, and 
which fometimes rofe perpendicularly to the 
height of more than two hundred feet, we ran 
the rifk of being cruflied to atoms by the fall 
of fome fragment, detached by thofe who were 
marching above us. In the midft of thefe 
dangers, and others created by their imagina- 
tions, my poltroons vv^ere by no means at their 
eafe. Confternatloa was painted in their 
countenances. They walked along in pro- 
found filence, but with emotions of difqtiietude 
at the fame time thcit announced unequivo- 
cally the ftate of their minds. 
At length, by dint of clambering, we gained 
the fummit of the chain; which the firft party of 
my 
