I was obliged to dismount and feel my way cautiously to the bottom, delighted to discover there a smoothly flowing, narrow stream, running from the eastward between high banks, overhung by trees.

It was a dismal, gloomy spot, a veritable cave of darkness, yet apparently the very place I had been seeking for our purpose.

I could not even perceive the others, but the restless movement of their horses told me of their presence.
"Kennedy." "Right yere, sir.

Lord, but it's dark--found enything ?" "There is a creek here.

I don't know where it flows from, but it seems to come out of the east.