How long were you in the valley ?" "The better part of three days.

'Twas like sword-cut in a great mountain plain, and on the third day we came to a wall of rock which was the head of it.

This we scaled, how I do not know, by cracks and fissures, the stronger dragging up the weaker by means of the tow-rope which by the mercy of God we carried with us.

There we lost Francis Derrick, who fell a great way and crushed his skull on a boulder.

You knew the man ?" "He sailed with me in '95.