After the lapse of an hour, the patient was indeed able to resume his journey; but lassitude, headache, and feverish shiverings still remained, and we had a ride of many hours before us ere we could reach our resting- place for the night.

From every hill we climbed the ocean could be seen at so short a distance that we thought an hour's journeying must bring us there.

But each time another mountain thrust itself between, which it was necessary to climb.

So it went on for many hours, till at length we reached a small valley with a lofty isolated mass of rock in the midst, crowned by a ruined castle.

The approach to this stronghold was by a flight of stairs cut in the rock.