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starting off at once, but my companion 

 would not listen to it ; she gave me to un- 

 derstand that the whole country would be 

 on the look out for us, and we should not 

 be half an hour out of the jungle before 

 we might be captured by some one who 

 would give the alarm ; so we decided 

 upon remaining where we were for the day, 

 and to be guided by circumstances on the . 

 morrow. 



My guide slept or pretended to sleep 

 most of the day, and it passed so slowly 

 that I was glad when I saw the sun be- 

 ginning to disappear in the west. We 

 then mounted the tree as we had done the 

 previous night, and saw the same proces- 

 sion of animals pass, and return in the 

 morning, when we were much pleased to 

 find a couple of eggs in the jungle fowl's 

 nest : on my penetrating further into the 



