The water, indeed, had not yet ceased to run, for it was trickling from hole to hole.

Upon Mr.Carmichael inquiring what delayed me so long, I replied: "Ah, it is all very easy for you; you have two circumstances in your favour.

You are young, and therefore able to climb, and besides, you are in the tropic." To which he very naturally replies, "If I am in the tropic you must be also." I benignly answer, "No, you are in the tropic clime of youth." While on the high ground no view of any kind, except along the mountains for a mile or two east and west, could be obtained.

I was greatly disappointed at having such a toilsome walk for so little purpose.

We returned by a more circuitous route, eventually reaching the camp very late at night, thoroughly tired out with our walk.