All night we wandered through the lonely moonlit valleys, startling the silence into a thousand echoes with our cries.

But no answer came to them.

In vain our eyes searched the sides of precipices formed of water-riven rocks fantastically piled one upon another; in vain we searched through endless dells and fern-clad crannies.

There was nothing to be found.

How could we expect to find two human beings hidden away in the recesses of this vast stretch of mountain ground, which no man yet had ever fully explored.