He probably had a friend around somewhere who supplied his wants.

I now left him and went farther out into the lowest part of the valley.

I could look to the north for fifty miles and it seemed to rise gradually in that direction.

To the south the view was equally extended, and down that way a lake could be seen.

The valley was here quite narrow, and the lofty snow-capped peak we had tried so hard to reach for the past two months now stood before me.