was to return, and deciding to take no more such chances as those we

had run in coming out, I said we would wait till dark, but this

proved unnecessary, for to my utter astonishment my guide informed me

that there was a perfectly safe route by which we might go back. I

asked why we had not taken it in coming, and he replied that he had

thought it "too long and circuitous." To this I could say nothing,

but I concluded that that was not quite the correct reason; the truth

is that early that morning the young fellow had been helping to empty