And surely it went backward into the country for a mighty way,
so far as my sight did go; and I did think it to be no river, but
truly a further sea. And there was no way across; for there were no
trees anigh, to make me a raft, neither might I wade across; for it
might be shallow here and deep there, and the mud be in all places.
And, moreover, I had been like to be caught in one of those
upburstings of mud, even did I have a raft to go upon. And because
of all these things, I gat me back again to the Gorge, and
presently I did go upward into the darkness.
Now, I went upward very steady, save that I did stumble oft, and
did go through six great hours. And truly it did seem that I went
in an utter dark, because that I had been awhile in so constant a
light.
And, by that I had
