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At the next village they stopped , and as they found that there was no possibility of obtaining fresh horses , they determined to push forward on foot . It was now four o'clock in the morning , and they had ridden over forty miles . Another guide was obtained , and they set forward . Although they had hurried to the utmost , it was ten o'clock in the morning before they came down upon a valley with a narrow stream which their guide told them fell into the sea , near Leuchars . They were , he said , now within two miles of the castle , the track from which to the sea ran down the valley . The wind was still blowing a gale , but the clouds had broken , and at times the sun streamed out brightly . `` Thank Heaven we are here at last , '' Donald Leslie said , `` for a harder night I have never spent .