34/36 Not very swell time to get from the top of the Pike here in five hours. All a chance whether I get down at all, now--I'm about finished up. Wish those Cambridge fellows-- Here the diary ends abruptly; but, in case our readers are curious to know the end of our hero's adventure, they will be interested to learn that at the identical moment when the writer reached this point in his diary, the Cambridge fellows _did_ turn up. They had, indeed, been out searching the hills from very early morning for the wanderer. As he did not arrive the night before at Wastdale, they had concluded he had given up the ascent, and returned to Dungeon Ghyl. |