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TO keep along the edge of the gorge was not so easy as it had looked．Before they had gone many yards they were confronted with young fir woods growing on the very edge，and after they had tried to go through these，stooping and pushing for about ten minutes，they realized that，in there，it would take them an hour to do half a mile．So they came back and out again and decided to go round the fir wood．This took them much farther to their right than they wanted to go，far out of sight of the cliffs and out of sound of the river，till they began to be afraid they had lost it altogether．Nobody knew the time，but it was getting to the hottest part of the day．
When they were able at last to go back to the edge of the gorge nearly a mile below the point from which they had started they found the cliffs on their side of it a good deal lower and more broken．Soon they found a way down into the gorge and continued the journey at the river’s edge．But first they had a rest and a long drink．No one
