Since the ascent began he had not ceased to look down; and now as they rose free of the tree-tops that clothed the base of the mountain he could see across the plain, and beyond the bounding embankment of the island to the dark waste of the sea.

Somewhere out there _The Aloha_ was rocking.

Somewhere, away to the northwest, the lights of New York harbour shone.

_Did_ they, St.George wondered vaguely; and, when he went back, how would they look to him?
It seemed to him in some indeterminate fashion that when he saw them again there would be new lines and sides of beauty which he had never suspected, and as if all the world would be changed, included in this new world that he had found.
Half-way up the ascent a resting-place was contrived for the carriers.

The projection upon which the baskets were lowered was hardly three feet in width.