This was a most trying journey, at least twenty miles long, over precipitous mountains, and performed, for the most part, during night.

It was necessary that we should not rest until we travelled far out of range of the locality where our persons had been known and our retreat discovered.

Our young guide left us with friends or dependents of his family, and returned to be in readiness to communicate any tidings from his brother.

Those tidings came fast on our footsteps; but the message was to warn us that we were not even there safe; for that Lord Bantry had all his tenantry engaged in searching for us.

The despatch added that, if able, we were to be at the "Priest's Leap" at a certain hour in the evening, where we would hear the result of the efforts made for us.