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obtained, but the journey.html">journey was a long and toilsome one, and it was
undertake it.
(PLATE 16. PATH UP STEEP HILL. THE ROAD AND ROCKY LEDGE.)
Having determined on the journey, I soon completed my preparations.
the road.html">road; a pack-mule.html">mule carried our equipment, consisting of some
hammock. We started at seven o'clock on the morning of the 11th
far as Pital, in consequence of the badness of the road, which was
reaching the savannahs, we proceeded more rapidly. We followed the
turned more to the north, taking a path.html">path that led over mountain
ascending or descending, and as it rained all the afternoon, the
he not being so sure-footed or so cautious as a mule, often
led along the top of the narrow ridge of a long hog-backed hill; in
precipitous slopes. I nearly came to grief at one place. We had
cap had to be leaped, at right angles to the narrow path that
slipped on the smooth rock and fell. If he had gone back over. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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