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a flicker arises, the fluctuations of despair when all
is black again, carry one through the dark hours
amazingly.
At daylight I found that I had wandered quite away
from any vestige of the track, and therefore steered
straight on by compass for an hour or two, until I
came upon a track taking something like the direction
of my route. I followed it to a place called Flathyl,
a small settlement of wooden huts, where I might have
obtained lodging and food, but my besetting sin of
stubbornness would not allow me to do so; having
started for Gugaard, the mental pain inevitably
resulting from falling short of that intention would far exceed
the amount of physical inconvenience arising from
walking ten miles farther: for such is the distance I had
yet to make, according to the information I received
from the inhabitants of Flathyl.
It appears that I had gone quite away from the
proper track, and got on to another which runs nearly
parallel to it at a distance of five or six miles further
south. It may be that I lost it at an early part of the
journey, where, according to my map, it passes between
the Ule Vand and the Staa Vand, and then continues
on the north side of the chain of lakes. Certainly I
saw no path corresponding to the broad line marked
upon the map.
I reached Gugaard at about nine o’clock in the
morning, after a walk of above fifty miles, including my
deviations from the proper track; and this over ground
that can scarcely be measured by miles, the greater part
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