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"Why, what now?" says I taking a step towards her; but seeing how she shrank away I paused and, glancing down at oat "How, is it this?" says I "Well, a little blood is no great ry "Ha!" quoth I, "You'll be thinking doubtless of the murders aboard ship and roise as youwhich I strode off; and thus I presently heard the soothing sound of falling water, yet look where I ht could see none save that in the little valley below Being direly athirst I began to seek for this unseen rill, and little by little was led up a steep, bush-grown acclivity until, all at once, I found ht pleasant place; for here, all set about with soft reat oval basin or rocky hollow soh which I ht see the bottoe y hair and beard and the shapeless thing upon ue I looked

This pool was fed by a little rill that gurgled down froh a wide fissure and down the cliff to lose itself a joyously tosatisfied my thirst and found the water very sweet and cool, I stripped and bathing reat solace and content, insoreat wonder) I presently found htily refreshed, and that the wind and sunit a thankless task I got dressed at last, but my chain-shirt I left folded beside the pool and Irill, I clambered down the rocks and so into the little valley where ran the strealory of flowers of all colours, but one in especial I noticed, white and trumpet-shaped And here I was often stayed by quickset and creeping plants, their steer On went I haphazard through a green twilight of leaves, for here (as hath been said) were reat and se to me, but others I knew for cocos-palreatly; and hereabouts I found growing great bunches of black fruit like to grapes, though s divers birds peck at the soer I pressed on, despite the heat, for froreat waters, and forced ave place to a grove of reat, barren rock that overhung a lake, whose dark waters were troubled by a torrent hard by that poured into it with a great rushing sound, a torrent of prodigious voluht "So here" (thinks I) "is Ada down, I fell to viewing the place, rapes the while Oppositesandy beach with trees beyond, while beyond these again rose that high, tree-clad hill whose barren, rocky dome we had seen froreat rent in the surrounding rocks bethich Ithis rushing cataract I reat a body of water should come froot to considering hoewe should explore the island I was yet puzzling this when, glancing up, I found the sun already westering, wherefore (notmy back on these troubled waters, set out on li water whence I had co rapes) I wasthe denser woods I lost looes where I must needs cut a path, yet even so I troubled ht prove ht foundlost and in the dark, I sat rapes ht the better I preserved Soon this leafy glooht I went on and so at last came upon the stream But hereabouts it ran fast and deep and I must needs seek about till I found a ford Thus the h as, after desperate scralow of a fire Moreover, as I approached I s forward saw my companion crouched upon that stone I havelanced up and rose to her feet