William Blake Jacob's Ladder

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would have been carpeted with grass and mountain flowers, where the river would have meandered over gravel beds; said, and wondered if he ought to offer to pay; but the captain had turned away to supervise the unloading.
Before long all thirty or so bears and all their armor were on the narrow shore. The captain shouted an order, and the vessel began to turn ponderously against the current, maneuvering but the valley was now a lake, and the captain insisted that he dared not go past it. Beyond this point, he explained, there would be not enough depth below the keel, even with the massive flood from the north.So they drew up to the edge of the valley, where an outcrop of rock formed a sort of jetty, and disembarked."Where are we now?" said Will to the captain, whose English was limited.The captain found a tattered old map and jabbed at it with his pipe, saying, "This valley here, we now. You take, go on.""Thank you very much," Will