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CHAPTER IX. 



THE H1TEEIC JL5TE. A FEJU2FTI, XIGHT. 



GULST. THE SAKSJUPABLLLA-FIJLXT. 



A SPKOTG. OUX JBHTO1TAC. 



GETSGJLLET DISCOVERS 



T 'EXCTERADO'S prediction seemed as if it was Kkerj 

 -*-' to be realized. About three o'clock in the morning 

 we were awakened by a hoarse roaring; the trees seemed 

 to shiver; sometimes the uproar appeared to grow less and 

 almost to cease, and then broke out again loader than ever. 

 I hastened to warm some coffee; bat two or three times 

 the intermittent squalls scattered the burning fagots of oar 

 fire, and the hot ashes nearly Winded us. This mishap was 

 owing to the open glade being: so near to us, across which 

 the wind rnsbed furious and unrestrained. 'Almost before 



