Sometimes they reined up their horses and rode a little farther back, so as to have a view to the very summit.
When they completed the round, they agreed that there were but two spots where it seemed to them that an ascent was barely possible, and they were very doubtful whether the difficulties, when examined more closely, would not prove to be absolutely insurmountable.
"That is not a satisfactory outlook," Dick said, "but fortunately there is, now, no motive for climbing the precipice.

Certainly those places would be of no use to a party wanting to make an attack.

In the first place, though you and I might get up, with soft shoes on, I am sure that English soldiers, with muskets and ammunition pouches, could never do it, especially at night; and in the daytime, even if a body of troops strong enough to be of any use could get up, those who first arrived at the top would be killed before the others could come to their assistance, and a few stones rolled down would sweep all behind them to the bottom.
"I don't like turning my back on the place," he went on, as they turned their horses' heads to the south; for Savandroog was the farthest north of the forts they were to visit.

"It seems to me that, even now, my father may be there." "How can that be, Dick ?" Surajah said in surprise.

"Nothing could be more straightforward than the governor seemed to be.