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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Sutherland Falls

Sutherland Falls

that night (distant a mile and a-half [unclear: through] bush) was seriously proposed. We [unclear: recko] couln get there before dark, have a good [unclear: l] the falls, and be back at the Beech [unclear: Huts] o'clock. With this accomplished, we [unclear: fa] could on the following day go right [unclear: through] Milford Sound, and return to the [unclear: Beech] by 7 or 8 o'clock p.m. The projected [unclear: S] land Falls visit was hurriedly [unclear: discussed] decided on, and after a cup of tea [unclear: and] thing to eat we started at 7.45, [unclear: reached] Falls about 8 20, and saw this [unclear: mag] spectacle in the waning evening [unclear: light] approached within about 50 or 60 [unclear: feet] Falls, and lelt the cooling influence of [unclear: the] which saturates everything within [unclear: c] able radius. Owing to the dry [unclear: w] which prevailed, the body of water [unclear: coming] the Falls was not so great as is [unclear: tre] the case, but the sight was a [unclear: suff] impressive one, and will long be [unclear: rem] by all of us. We retraced our [unclear: steps] the bush, and reached the huts [unclear: shortly] o'clock, having, so far as our guides [unclear: kn] the first party to walk right through [unclear: i] day from the head of Te Anau [unclear: La] thereafter go on the same night to [unclear: the] But we certainly do not [unclear: recommend] else to make the attempt. It was [unclear: only] by the writer because he had to do [unclear: it] time or not at all. Having got [unclear: our] off, we were soon all comfortably [unclear: dis] in the beech-top filled bunks of [unclear: the] huts,—of the necessity for the [unclear: Gov] building a new hut I shall have [unclear: som] say later on—and after an hour's talk [unclear: a] we settled down to sleep, with the [unclear: k] that we had to rise at 4.30 on the [unclear: f] day to order to make an early [unclear: start] Milford Sound trip.