At this rate the top would not be reached before sundown.
"Faith!" cried Mr.Smith, stopping for breath, "I realize why the climbers of the Great Eyrie have been few, so few, that it has never been ascended within my knowledge." "The fact is," I responded, "that it would be much toil for very little profit.

And if we had not special reasons to persist in our attempt." "You never said a truer word," declared Harry Horn.

"My comrade and I have scaled the Black Dome several times, but we never met such obstacles as these." "The difficulties seem almost impassable," added James Bruck.
The question now was to determine to which side we should turn for a new route; to right, as to left, arose impenetrable masses of trees and bushes.

In truth even the scaling of cliffs would have been more easy.

Perhaps if we could get above this wooded slope we could advance with surer foot.