We shall skirt their foot, for a hundred and fifty miles, till we get behind Gheriah." "You wouldn't think that a horse could climb them," Tim said.

"They look as steep as the side of a house." "In many places they are, Tim, but you see there are breaks in them.
At some points, either from the force of streams, or from the weather, the rocks have crumbled away; and the great slopes, which everywhere extend halfway up, reach the top.

Zigzag paths are cut in these, which can be travelled by horses and pack animals.
"There must be quantities of game," Charlie said to the leader of the escort, "on the mountain sides." "Quantities ?" the Mahratta said.

"Tigers and bears swarm there, and are such a scourge that there are no villages within miles of the foot of the hills.

Even on the plateau above, the villages are few and scarce near the edge, so great is the damage done by wild beasts.
"But that is not all.