In all these considerations Mr.Carmichael fully agreed, and it was decided that I should inform Alec of our resolution so soon as we returned to the camp.

After the usual nearly three hours' work to water our horses, we turned our backs for the last time upon Glen Thirsty, where we had so often returned with exhausted and choking horses.
I must admit that I was getting anxious about Robinson and the state of things at the camp.

In going through Worrill's Pass, we noticed that scarcely a tree had escaped from being struck by the lightning; branches and boughs lay scattered about, and several pines from the summits of the ridges had been blasted from their eminence.

I was not very much surprised, for I expected to be lightning-struck myself, as I scarcely ever saw such lightning before.

We got back to Robinson and the camp at 5 p.m.My old horse that carried the pack had gone quite lame, and this caused us to travel very slowly.