"No use carry dat," she said, "can get plenty now wheneber we want it."
"How are you feeling, Myra?" Nat asked presently.
"I am beginning to feel tired, but I can hold on for a bit. Don't mind about me, please, I shall do very well."
She was, however, limping badly. After going to the end of the little dip they crossed the dividing spur, and presently struck the other depression of which Dinah had spoken.
"There is no water here, Dinah; I hope it has not dried up."
"No fear ob dat, sah. In de wet season water run here, but not now; we find him farder down."
The little valley deepened rapidly, the sides became rocky and broken, and to Nat's satisfaction they presently came to a spot where a little rill of water flowed out from a fissure in the rock.
"How much farther, Dinah?"
"A lillie quarter ob a mile."
The sides of the valley closed in rapidly, and in a few minutes they entered a ravine where the rocks rose perpendicularly on each side, the passage between being but seven or eight feet wide.