Let us take a good stock of dried meat, a skin for water--we can fill it at the head of the valley--and make our way forward.

I do not think the sea can lie very far on the other side of this range of mountains, but at any rate, we must wait no longer.

Captain Drake may have passed already, but we may still be in time." The next morning they bade adieu to their companions, with whom they had been traveling for a fortnight.

These, glad again to turn their faces homeward, set off at once; and the lads, shouldering their packs, started up the valley.

The scenery was grand in the extreme, and Ned and Tom greatly enjoyed it.