Now, the four bow oars get out and step ashore." When the lieutenant and his four men had landed, the boat again pushed off, and the party on shore made their way along over the rocks at the edge of the water until they were opposite the rock where Lieutenant Desmond had seen the man appear.

Then the ascent was commenced.

The four officers went first, the men following in a line.
"Bear a little to the left," Captain O'Connor said; "it is likely to lie somewhere in that direction.

The man we saw would have been making toward the path and not from it.

Keep a sharp lookout between these great rocks; there is no saying where the entrance to their hiding-place may be." Almost as he spoke there was a sharp crack of a rifle, and the bullet struck the rock on which he was standing.
"Come on, lads!" he shouted, "the sooner we are there the less time they have got to fire;" and with a cheer the men hurried forward, scrambling recklessly over the rocks.