CHAPTER XIV. 



THE METEOR. GOB ALMIGHTY*S LAXTERXS. THE SKCXK. 



THE JALAP-FLAXT. AX AintlAf. JOUEXET- THE OR- 

 CHIDS. BIVOUAC IX THE MOUTH OF A CAVE. GKIXGA- 



LET AX THE BEETLES. A WHITE AXTS' XEST. 



eaa. left us soon afterwards, and we sat talking 

 by die fire. At last F Encuerado took away Laden 

 towards the rocks, and set up one of those interminable 

 chants with which his memory was stored. Onrfire light- 

 ed up with its red gleam the stone on which they were sit- 

 ting, making it look tike an immense pedestal, surmounted 

 by two bronze statues. Any traveller suddenly entering 

 the valley would have recoiled in terror before this fantas- 

 tic apparition ; and if any wild beast had been prowling 

 near us, our gigantic shadows would certainly have made it 

 keep its distance. - 



