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I would move in one direction until I would find my way blocked
when I would work myself out again, walk in a slightly different
direction until again blocked.  Under such conditions,
it did not take long and I had not the slightest idea where
I was.  Not a path could be found, no familiar object
was in sight.  Taking in the situation, I saw plainly, that to
find my way out I would have to proceed in one direction.  The
sun was in the west so I walked as nearly as possible in 
a north-east direction - then expecting to cross <s>the</s> our ravine. I
was now in a small ravine, a high hill-side in front of me, I 
thought <s>it was the hill</s> that when I would reach the top I
would be overlooking our ravine.  I reached the top but the
familiar path to the Observatory was not to be seen.  I was
overlooking a ravine but it was not ours.  I kept on in 
the same direction down the hillside across the ravine and up
again to the top of another.  Here at last I saw familiar objects
the path to the Observatory, the various wood lilac and down
below our old ravine.  It did not take me long now to find 
my way to our hut and from there to our new spring.  After 
a brief rest, I hurried onward through the ravine passed the
        