A DRAMATIC EPISODE 



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derobo villages, and it was evident the natives who 

 occupied them were abandoning their homes in ter- 

 ror before our descending column. Sometimes we 

 groped our way through great forests in which 

 there was no trail to follow, and sometimes we cut 

 our way through dense jungle thickets like a solid 

 wall of vegetation. 



Galloping Lions 



[Upon several occasions we came to impassable 

 places where an abrupt cliff would necessitate a 

 tiresome return and a new attempt. Once we came 

 to a little clearing in the vast forest where the grass 

 was like a lawn and where towering trees rose like 

 the arches of a great cathedral a hundred feet 

 above. It was the most beautiful, serene and majes- 



