Chapter IV. 



lef't-haud side of tlie valley. The Mobiiku torrent roars more 

 than 600 feet below in the deep and jn-ecipitons gorge where 

 it has cut a channel through the detritus, Avliile the blocks 

 and jjebbles of the moraine formation are quite plainly visible 

 in section on the deeply cut sides. 



The trees now grew denser and denser Tuitil, on the top of 

 tlie moraine, the path once more entered the forest. For 

 some distance the way followed the crest of the moraine, in 

 many places less than a yard wide, until it reached a gigantic 

 boulder of gneiss about :10 feet long, and from 18 to 20 feet 

 high, near A\'liich stood a little straw-roofed shed quite crooked 

 and propped up by a few piles driven into the earth. This 



I CAN DA. 



is the camp of NakitaA\a. On every side stretched the 

 forest of tall tre(-s witli tiie dense In'ushwond beneath. 

 Hours of hard work were recpiired to cut doAxii enough 



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