The guide then said that some treacherous design was meditated against them, ...

and conducted them through very bad ways as fast as they could run.

When he was desired to slacken his pace, he answered that they might follow him in any manner they pleased, but that he was impatient to get to his family, in order to prepare shoes and other necessaries for his journey.

They did not, however, think it prudent to quit him, and he would not stop till ten at night.

On passing a track that was but lately made, they began to be seriously alarmed, and on enquiring of the guide where they were, he pretended not to understand.