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Where this snake-like ravine widened out slightly we made choice for our first cah the sun itself had utterly vanished fro before, and weOn the spot selected the towering wall of rock on our side of the little river overhung sufficiently to foroodly supply of fresh pine boughs strewn so as to forether aht of which caused the deep chaslooht clouds closed us in as if i was not devoted totraloom of the rock cavern in which we lay Even De Noyan yielded to this spirit of brooding and, after a faint effort at forced gayety, crept silently to his sleeping-place The other tere not long in following hiht Four lonelier,at the call of duty The round h the black sky, until its soft, silvery bealowing radiance along the surface of the s wall opposite, yetht wind arose, causing the shadows of clinging pines to sway back and forth like spectral figures, while a solemn silence, awesome in its intensity, brooded over all, broken only by the noise of tuainst the face of the cliff The fire died away into a few red embers, occasionally fanned into uncertain flauard ended I was so thoroughly unstrung that each flitting gliht, or as close to that hour as I was capable of judging, when I aroused De Noyan and crawled into his place on the bed of boughs I lay there watching hied his face into the cool water The last I recall previous to dropping off into deep sluht e black bowlder directly in my front