I would not allow them to be followed for fear of increasing their alarm, and in the hope that they would return, but was disappointed.

It must have awakened strange feelings in the breast of these two savages, who could never before have seen civilized man, thus to have sat spectators and overlookers of the every action of such incomprehensible beings as we must have appeared; and the relation to their comrades of the wonders they had witnessed could not have been to them a whit less marvellous than the tales of the grey-headed Irish peasant, when he recounts the freaks of the fairies, "whose midnight revels by the forest side or fountain" he has watched intently from some shrub-clad hill.
COMMENCEMENT OF FIRST EXCURSION.
I started in the evening, accompanied by Corporal John Coles and Private R.Mustard, both of the corps of Royal Sappers and Miners, and for a short distance by two or three others of the party from the camp.

We moved up the ravine in which we were encamped in a nearly due south direction, and after following this course about a mile turned up a branch ravine to the left, bearing 87 degrees from the north.
CHARACTER OF THE SCENERY.

GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA.
The romantic scenery of this narrow glen could not be surpassed.

Its width at bottom was not more than forty or fifty feet, on each side rose cliffs of sandstone between three and four hundred feet high and nearly perpendicular; lofty paper-bark trees grew here and there, and down the middle ran a beautiful stream of clear, cool water, which now gushed along, a murmuring mountain torrent, and anon formed a series of small cascades.