I had no choice left but to trust myself to chance.

I faced the animal against the current, and forcing him to make his best efforts to mount the stream, we were carried directly across.

The owner of the horse said he would come back of his own accord.

I turned him into the stream, and when half way across, he was borne headlong over a precipice, where I concluded he was dashed to pieces.

Another horse was immediately procured, by a man who had no fears, to bring the guide across; but the latter was so terrified that he made himself drunk ere he attempted the dangerous passage.