The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district.

Great threasure sithence we did finde

Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture. It is most indecorous.

In short, she always made herself as toastily comfortable as a cat.