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but smile when the thought struck me, that I 

 would have fresh meat, at any rate. Then once 

 more came the mysterious whispering, terrifying 

 silence. But now a sharp sound came up from 

 the depths of the gloom, for the light was pallid 

 now, and still another sharp sound. Then I hal- 

 looed long and loud and waited ; like an echo it 

 rolled back through the jungle. There was no 

 mistaking it now it was John Charley coming 

 with the dogs. . . . 



******* 



By dint of unparalleled paddling, even all 

 through the long starry nights, my men landed 

 me in Georgetown before my fever had pro- 

 gressed too far. With the attendance and never- 

 to-be-forgotten kindness of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. 

 Lockwood (who were on a visit from New 

 York), I was soon on my feet again and plan- 

 ning another hunt for the elusive jaguar. 



One hundred miles to the east, and extending 

 up from the coast, are the vast savannah lands, 

 that roll away for miles upon miles. Their pro- 

 portions are so great that no one even tries to 

 indicate their enormity. Clothed with a luxuriant 

 growth of grass, that waves and bends majesti- 

 cally as the winds ever and anon go singing and 

 dancing across their vast reaches, they make ex- 



