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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- 



