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To the mountain to search for the beast.
This is found in Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies. Simon tells everyone that they need to go climb the mountain. He is saying this in response to the discussion by blowing the conch..
He leaves Ralph's group in Chapter Eight: Gift for the Darkness on page 127.
When Ralph said, in chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness, and I quote "We've no fire. That thing sits up there-- we'll have to stay here." Piggy replied, "We got no fire on the mountain. But what's wrong with a fire down here?"
In Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain the 'shameful knowledge' is the realisation that after they had spent much of their energy building a huge bonfire they had no way of lighting it. Ralph initially avoided making any confession by enquiring of Jack, "Will you... Will you light the fire?" To which Jack managed a mumbled reply about rubbing sticks together and then, to quote from the book... He glanced at Ralph, who blurted out the last confession of incompetence. "Has anyone got any matches?"