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Very faithful to me during this excurfion, being very active and 
hardy: I do not know if I could havck gone through this fa- 
tigue had it not been for his affiftance. I now determined to 
commence this day’s route up the ravin, as it feemed to widen 
and apparently run a confide table way up in the direction X 
wiflred for; and if I could get out of it upon the other ridge,, 
it would at leaf!: be two miles nearer than the way I had at- 
tempted yefterday, and probably, after getting out of it, I. 
might find wood eafier of accefs. In this ravin X got up about 
a mile and a half, without meeting with any con fide rabie ob~ 
ft ru cl ion. Encouraged by getting fo far, although the ravin, 
was narrowing faff, with numbers of rocks and precipices to 
climb over, with vines and bufhes difficult to get through, X 
was refolved to perfift in this route, and determined by every 
poflible means to get to the objeff o-f my wifhes, wfell knowing 
if I could not perform it this way, I might abandon it entirely. 
After climbing over a number of difficult paries, the ravin ter- 
minated at the bottom of a very high precipice; how far it 
was to the fummit I did not know, being covered toward the ., 
top with thick wood; but from the bottom upwards it 
was loofe fand as far as X could fee, with ferns and tufts of 
graft, which, as foon as I took hold of them, came out 
at the roots. The precipice being fo very fteep, with no trees- 
or bufhes on it to affift me in getting up, X plainly faw the at- 
tempting to climb it was at the rilk of my life t however, L 
Tfras refolved to try it, and telling the boy to keep fome diftance 
behind me, in cafe X ffiould tumble and drive him down along 
with me, I began to afcend, holding the tufts of graft as' 
lightly as poflible, and digging holes with my cutlafs to put 
my feet in ; but I often loft my hold, and frequently flipped 
clown a confiderable diftance r however, as it was nothing but 
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