He had to "crawl," of course.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
All day long the snow had been falling, and for the last few miles he had found it almost impossible to crawl upward.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Wisbech had never seen cattle of any kind progress in that fashion before, but he naturally did not know that the Bush-bred ox can travel at a headlong pace up and down hills and amidst thickets a man would cautiously climb or painfully crawl through.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton