If we should find it impossible to descend anywhere, we must sleep till sunset, then strike the road above the fort, go down at night, and manage to slip past the sentry." "The only thing is, Sahib, that it seemed as if the fort lay right across the entrance to the gorge, and the road went through it." "It did look like that, Surajah.

Certainly the road went through a gateway.

But there must be a break somewhere.

We could see that, in the wet season, a lot of water comes down there, so there must be some sort of passage for it; and if the passage is big enough for the storm water to go through, it must be big enough for us." Surajah agreed, and they turned off from the line that they had before been following; no longer hurrying, but walking at a leisurely pace.
They were not pressed for time.

There was no chance, whatever, of pursuit; and as they had been going, for some six hours, at the top of their speed, they were both feeling exhausted.
After proceeding for two miles, they came upon a small stream.