TEN INDIANA CAVES AND THE ANIMALS 

 WHICH INHABIT THEM. 



Caves are uncanny places. So thinks the average 

 person, when, for the first time, he stands in the en- 

 trance of one of these under-ground cavities and 

 glances along its walls of stone until his gaze reaches 

 the point where the shadowy rays grow dim and 

 eternal darkness begins. The chilly current of air 

 which conies rushing forth, and the solemn silence 

 of the depths beyond, beget a sensation of awe which 

 it is difficult to suppress. Only a long experience in 

 traversing subterranean passages will accustom a per- 

 son to their surroundings and enable him to enter a 

 cavern with anything like that degree of indifference 

 with wliich he passes from daylight into the darkened 

 rooms of a dwelling. 



In the mind of the naturalist who is a tyro in cave 

 exploration, there is mingled with this feeling of awe 

 one of great expectancy. He hopes to add some new 

 and wonderful facts to his store of knowledge. An- 

 other Avorld is to be opened up before him. He is to 

 travel through passageways worn in solid stone by 

 the slow eroding power of water. He is to see in 

 actual process of formation those pendent stalactites 

 of creamy, crystalline calcite of which he has often 

 read. He is to meet for the first time whole races of 



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