human
What a ghastly hole! said Maurice, whom the dismal aspect of the gorge depressed.
gpt
How much further are these tunnel-like infernos going to last, Fanning? I swear it felt like a glimpse of daylight again, when we were riding up there past the two canister-headed gentry just now.
human
I shouldn't have thought you were such an imaginative chap, Sellon.
gpt
Well, you see, this everlasting feeling of being shut in is dismal work. Beastly depressing, don't you know.
human
You must make up your mind to it a little longer. There's a water-hole about an hour from here, and there we'll off-saddle and lie by for a snooze. By the way, it's dry here, isn't it?
gpt
Ghastly! It looks like a place where a stream should be running, too.
human
Well, I've seen such a roaring, racing, mountainous torrent galloping down here, that there wasn't foothold for man or beast anywhere between these krantzes. By-the-by, you may devoutly pray that there's no rain during the next few days. A thunder-storm in the mountains higher up would set the whole of this place humming with water.