IN THE CAPE SABLE WILDERNESS 
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was applied, and after the roaring sea of flame had passed, 
we went on. Then we encountered a tropical jungle, a solid 
mass of roots, vines, scrub palmettos, and the like. The guide 
went ahead and cut openings with a case-knife, through 
WHITE IBISES, “the TREES WERE FAIRLY ALIVE WITH SPLENDID GREAT BIRDS” 
which we crawled. After half an hour of this came a saw- 
grass bog, an area of water and quaking tussocks, a quarter 
of a mile wide. How we ever managed to flounder across, 
dragging one another out of holes, I hardly know. But we 
reached, at length, the tract of woods into which returning 
ibises, herons, and egrets were dropping, and from which we 
could hear a confused murmur of distant squawking. 
I shall never forget the sight that greeted me as I emerged 
from the tangle, and came to the edge of one of the impass- 
