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Walk down the tunnel till you reach a cave with a river running through it. You can jump in and go for a short but thrilling ride over some falls and into a deep pool, but it's a better idea to jump across the river and climb down the rocks so you can shoot the two wolves who are waiting by the pool from above. Either way, when the wolves are dead, stand with your back to the falls and climb up to a cave with another wolf in it. Shoot him and continue to a passage with white cliffs in front of you and a cavern to the right. There are three wolves to kill in the right chamber, but nothing else, so shoot them if you're feeling bloodthirsty and ignore them if you're not. Now back to the white cliffs. Climb up the one outcropping you can scale, then jump/climb up till you come across a skeleton and a medipack. Take the latter, then draw your guns and move forward and down cautiously. When you hit the ground, you'll hear a strange animal squealing, and whoops! It's a bright red raptor, and it's not in a good mood. Jump and shoot till it dies, then walk into the valley and shoot a second raptor. They're startling, but not hard to kill. Now. Max out your health if it isn't 100% and save your game, then walk cautiously into the valley until you can see a broken rope bridge above you and a massive bloody great T-Rex thundering toward you. Scream judiciously and start firing and jumping backward nonstop. Keep on the run, and don't let this bugger get close! unless you really like the idea of becoming a coprolith. Keep an eye on your health bar and remember that you can heal yourself mid-fight if you have to. To do this, press Escape to bring up the inventory and freeze the action, use a medipack, and return to the fight with a sigh of contentment from Lara. When he's dead and your heart has slowed to a workable rate, walk on into the valley under the bridge and past a single waterfall, to an area with two waterfalls. Climb the ledge to the right of the right waterfall to find SECRET #1, shotgun shells. Go to the ledge between the falls. Climb up two ledges and jump to the right onto the third ledge. Look up and notice a wedge-shaped crevice in the rock; jump and grab it, then shuffle to the right until you're in the middle of the falls. Pull yourself up and walk on water to reach SECRET #2, shotgun shells and Uzi clips. (Secret #2.5 is how you managed to walk on the top of the waterfall. Don't ask.) Return to the top of the falls and look down to see that there's a deep pool at the bottom. Jump down and swim through the tunnel to a pool inside a cave -- with a raptor squealing around there somewhere. Climb out when he's out of the room and kill him, then climb the ledges to the right of the falls up to a brick ledge, where you can pick up Machine Cog #1 (a pale grey gear about a virtual foot across). Climb down and follow the passage out to the valley, to a spot between the two waterfalls. Turn left and walk till you see a natural rock bridge on the right and a temple in the background -- oh, and two raptors charging at you. Knock them out (they're the last predators on this level) and enter the temple to find a fountain. Jump into the pool and dive down to the right side of the pool, where there's a tunnel with Machine Cog #2 at the bottom. Pick it up and return to the surface. Leave the temple and move to the left wall of the valley before the natural bridge, where there's all sorts of cliffs and ledges. Explore till you find one you can climb. Climb the first ledge, then jump left to a second ledge. Turn left to do a jump and grab to a third ledge, then do a leap and grab to a fourth ledge. Do a running jump onto the temple roof for SECRET #3, and pick up a medipack, magnum clips, Uzi clips, and shotgun shells. Enjoy the view, then get back down by going to the other side of the roof and dropping to slide to the valley floor. Turn to the right and climb into a cave in the valley wall. Follow the tunnel until you reach one side of the broken rope bridge. Get several jumps back from the edge, then do a long running jump and grab the other side of the bridge (which is held in midair by the suspension of disbelief, apparently). This may take several tries; that over-the-shoulder view is cool, but makes it difficult to see when she's reached the very edge of the bridge, and a jump too soon or too late ain't good enough. When you get there, pull yourself up and continue over to get Machine Cog #3. Do a safety drop from the cliff edge to slide to the valley floor. Turn right and make your way back to the cave above the first huge waterfall (where you started this level). When you get there, move as far in as you can and jump across the river. Move to your right and jump to the ledge you can see on the other side. Keep on moving upstream in this fashion. If you miss, you'll fall in the river and zip over the waterfall and have to make your way back again; it doesn't hurt, but it's time- consuming and frustrating, so you might want to save every time you make a jump safely, unless your tolerance for frustration is higher than mine. The last jump (which requires you to grab the edge and pull yourself up) leads to a tunnel and across a rope bridge. There you'll find a switch, some gears in the wall, and three unused pegs. Put the Cogs on the pegs (doesn't matter which one goes where), then pull the switch. Well, the gears moved, but what happened? Turn around and go look at the river -- look, a door moved to change the passage of the river. Cool! Don't cross the bridge; rather, move to the upstream side of the ledge, turn around, step backward, and grab on to the edge. Shuffle left and drop onto another section of walkable water. Go up and turn left to reach SECRET #4, a medipack. Jump in the water and swim until you reach the dam. Turn left and pull yourself up onto the right ledge, where you'll find a skeleton with a shotgun he no longer needs. (The shotgun is more powerful than the pistols, but it doesn't have much range or accuracy and it takes a while to reload. Very effective against some creatures, however.) Jump back in the water and continue down the river to enter a tunnel. This is a very long and twisting tunnel, but eventually it comes out at SECRET #5 with shotgun shells and a medipack. The door from this room feeds out onto the dry riverbed. Drop down and walk left to a grey wall that used to be a waterfall. Jump over it into the lake below, surface, and turn to see a tunnel that was hidden by the waterfall. Climb out here, walk down the tunnel, open the door at the end, and EXIT!