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Coreat cataract which had effectually daress up the valley, the leaders swerved toward the left, passing so closely beside the leaping, foa flood as to be enveloped in the spray as if in a cloud ofon the rocks within reach of an outstretched hand, we coully co bushes, as if we traversed a tunnel dug by the hands of eway had been constructed by artificial ht frohs overhead, I caught a glie, crooked and intricate, at ti of steps in the solid rock, wound in and out along the side of the cliff, then ran back into the very face of the precipice, for ed, fifty yards back fro the crater of a burned-out volcano, having great ragged points of rock, blackened as if incased with lava, jutting up upon every side, and for as desolate and barren a picture as ever eyes looked upon

I was co a heavy one, and I noticed De Noyan was ghastly of face, his body tre like that of a palsiedto recruit strength The Chevalier was evidently in greater distress than I, so froht to draw near, the ely, and there was such shaking of spears and fierce uproar on the part of our escort, we could do naught else than set our teeth to it, and go staggering on The slight path, if itthe black lava cones in such labyrinthine fashion that no man could hope to retain ular stone, the passing feet left no trail for future guidance We travelled blindly, and reckless through suffering and exhaustion, some distance, until, perhaps a mile above the spot where we had surht, our co a great tree-trunk on one side and a huge black bowlder on the other We ca the insecure bark of a rude tree-bridge spanning the current Once safe on the other bank, our path merely a narrow shelf of stone, orreater height than in the gorge below A densecedars was partially pressed aside, partially crawled under, and fro, I i vast towering precipices of black frowning rock on every side, with no outlet apparent, save to one blessed ings Saint Andreas an awesoreen beloith thoseout all the rest of the world, and shadowing the little valley with irandeur