But a short distance from where the travellers made stop, a side trace
leads to the left, parallel to the direction of the river. Into this
Woodley strikes, conducting the others.
It is so narrow they cannot go abreast, but in single file.
After proceeding thus for some fifty yards, they reach a spot where the
path widens, debouching upon an open space--a sort of terrace that
overhangs the channel of the stream, separated from it by a fringe of
low trees and bushes.