CHAPTER XIII.
STARTLING NEWS.
"What do you think is the best thing to be done now doctor ?" Ralph asked.
"I don't know," he replied.

"I don't see how on earth we are going to get them over these rocks and up to the top.

A slip or a fall would cost either of your friends their limbs, and that poor fellow his life.

I don't see how it is to be managed.

It's hard work for a man to climb those rocks, and how a litter is to be carried I can't see.