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spur-like points of the lava ridge leading up to the summit the way became very steep but not at all dangerous.

Far up above us stood out the knob-like, gray mass of rock just below the summit & known to the sulphur gatherers as the outlook-mirador.

As usual, the leather-lunged Indians were in advance & evidently regarded with no small contempt the lack of ability to keep up with them.  For every fifteen or twenty yards of advance I found it necessary to stop and regain my breath - time not lost however as it