So we had to make the best of our way in the
general direction of the place we were making for.
It is wonderful how easily you lose your direction when you get into a
mass of ravines unless you notice carefully your bearings beforehand,
and either make for some good landmark, such as a distant mountain
peak, or else keep your direction by noticing the position of the sun.
In doing this, you must, of course, allow for the sun also changing
his position in the sky as the hours pass by.
We used the sun to some extent this day, but after a time a cold
breeze sprang up, and clouds began to gather, so that in a very little
while the sky was overcast and the sun was no longer any guide.
Then came on a cold, cold wind, which got more bitter as we struggled
against it.
But, cold as it was, I did not find that Scouts' kit was so cool as
people try to make out; the wind certainly whistled about my knees,
but I did not feel so very cold then.
We searched for some sort of sheltered place to pitch our tent, and
found plenty of such in the dry bed of the river under the cliffs,
which formed its banks, but we dared not use it, as rain clouds were
banking up, and if heavy rain were to come the dry river bed would in
a very short time be a raging torrent.
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