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Otherwise you fellows would have lost me . '' `` Good work , Jo , '' said Jim . `` Now we will have it easier going . '' So in single file they galloped along the path , until they found themselves by noon , at the foot of a spur of mountains that extended from the main coast range to the ocean . Jim regarded this barrier in their way with a practised eye . `` This will slow us down , Senor , '' he said . `` It looks like a pass below there , about two miles . ''