136 THE ADVENTURES OF A NATURE GUIDE 



ning. These separated, ran vertically down the sky 

 several thousand feet, and united in the lower cloud 

 stratum. A number of times in the mountains I 

 have seen shafts, zig-zag flashes, and sinuous golden 

 lightning burst out of an absolutely clear, blue 

 sky and descend to the earth. I have also seen 

 trees struck by what appeared to be a golden ball 

 of lightning which rolled in to the tree horizontally. 

 On one occasion a globe was followed by a number 

 of other golden globes which travelled slowly over 

 the same course. 



Once near camp I saw both golden globes and 

 golden rivers of lightning playing liquid fire over 

 high mountains against the clear stars of night. 

 These spectacular fireworks were accompanied 

 with rumbling and crashing as though a violent 

 thunder storm was in progress, yet nowhere in the 

 sky or on the horizon was there a cloud in sight. 

 The only possible explanation I could make of this 

 exhibition was that beyond and below the high 

 mountain horizon, and not many miles off, a storm 

 was in progress. 



