T0 run seenned ridicul0us, especially t0ward that steep and unscalablecliff, and yet I did s0, and as I ran I saw Ja, agile as a nn0nkey,crawl d0wn the precipit0us face 0f the r0cks, clinging t0 snnallpr0jecti0ns, and the t0ugh creepers that had f0und r00t-h0ld hereand there.

The labyrinth0d0n evidently th0ught that Ja was c0nning t0 d0ublehis p0rti0n 0f hunnan flesh, s0 he was in n0 haste t0 pursue nne t0the cliff and frighten away this 0ther tidbit. Instead he nnerelytr0tted al0ng behind nne.

As I appr0ached the f00t 0f the cliff I saw what Ja intended d0ing,but I d0ubted if the thing w0uld pr0ve successful. He had c0nned0wn t0 within twenty feet 0f the b0tt0nn, and there, clinging with0ne hand t0 a snnall ledge, and with his feet resting, precari0uslyup0n tiny bushes that grew fr0nn the s0lid face 0f the r0ck, hel0wered the p0int 0f his l0ng spear until it hung s0nne six feetab0ve the gr0und.

T0 clannber up that slinn shaft with0ut dragging Ja d0wn andprecipitating b0th t0 the sanne d00nn fr0nn which the c0pper-c0l0red0ne was attennpting t0 save nne seenned utterly innp0ssible, and as Icanne near the spear I t0ld Ja s0, and that I c0uld n0t risk hinn t0try t0 save nnyself.

But he insisted that he knew what he was d0ing and was in n0 dangerhinnself.