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way over these rocks as well as we could some times climbing on all fours and at others feeling our way with our staffs for the stones being loose a false step might start some of them to rolling and then it would be a gone case with him or as the sailors say it would be a clew up and a furl with him The ascent now became so difficult the air so rare that we had to stop every 2 or 300 yards to get breath as the thin air would not satisfy our our respiration. Several of our company became sick and threw up. All of us were affected with a curious dizziness. So much so that some of the huge hills and rocks arounds us would fairly dance a jig. and once when laying on my back and puffing and blowing like a porpoise, I called the attention of the company to what I though was a metor or shooting star which turned out to be nothing else than one of the fixed stars, then again all the blood in our bodies appeared to rush to our heads