CHAPTER LXXVII1. 



ON THE EDGE OF THE POOL. 



IN the gloomiest depths of the 

 pestilential jungles of Equatorial 

 Africa, where eternal twilight 



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reigns, and the intolerable rays of 

 the flaming sun can never penetrate, 

 the gorilla-hunters halted one fore- 

 noon, and, sitting down on a fallen 

 tree, almost hidden from sight by 



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