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Jordan. We water our horses & cross - up to our saddle girths flaps. Up a goat track again dear oh dear what a track. I pass 2 horses who have slipped & broken their necks & wonder when my turn will come, but the old mare carries me safely onward. It is now dark & the sound of firing has ceased, but we are riding over boulder strewn ground & I marvel how the old mare keeps her feet. I am dirty & hungry & weary & praying that we may halt. Eventually we pull up & sit by our horses. How has the scrap gone? we dont know but sit & nod & smoke & chew B & B. 10 pm we make another move but have to stop again as the going is too rough. The order comes along, "Lay by your horses until daylight." I fastnen the reins thro my shoulder strap & stretch out with my head on a boulder. Now & a Occasionally