Walking in Darkness,

for the waning light has no chance of penetrating through the close foliage of the trees. Garvey suggests that we should go up to the [unclear: t] and get two lanters which he believes are [unclear: there] but we decide not to delay, and we strike into the track, thinking that, dark as It is, we may be able to fluish our walk by [unclear: shortly] after 9 o'clock. We are quite out in our calculations, however, for at places we find it exceedingly difficult to keep the tract in the total darkness. Our progress is very show and not to mince matters, my friend and [unclear: I] are really "done up." From