One Bishai was our guide.

I do not know whether it was from old age, or from his heart failing him, but having once lost the road, he never could find it again; so, as it was not to be found with all our exertions, we were brought to a complete stand.

Seeing no other remedy, we returned back to a place where there was abundance of firewood, and despatched sixty or seventy chosen men to retrace our footsteps and find on lower ground any people who might be wintering there, and bring back another guide.

We halted thus for three or four days awaiting the return of our messengers; but when they did appear it was without any one to show the way.

Placing my reliance on God alone, therefore, I went on.