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west again is a wider cavity having a floor of limestone rubble as though the 

 sand had been washed out. 



From the southern extension of the Blue Hall a rounded opening worn 

 in the rock leads into the Fat Man's Passage, a deep, narrow gallery with 

 regularly vaulted roof, which has another orifice on its east side opposite that 

 by which we enter. These must have conveyed the water of the gallery which 

 stops north of them. Squeezing sideways along the Fat Man's Passage we 

 come to 



The Hall of the Agonies (17). This with the Hall of the Earthquakes 

 (14-15) opening to the south of the Horse Gallery, are rugged open spaces 

 encumbered with fallen masses of the roof. The gallery structure can only 

 be traced where it issues from them. Continuing southward along what was 

 a Double Gallery (17-18) we find the double form at one part where we pass 

 under a piece of the upper stalagmite. After this the gallery grows narrow 

 with a deep sand-bed which, however, proved barren of animal relics. Before 

 coming to the doorway of Hyasna Land the gallery becomes vaulted, and one 

 can stand upright ; but at the Portal (18) the upper stalagmite begins, leaving 

 so little space above our floor that one must kneel to enter, and here the 

 passage was so blocked by limestone that there was barely room to pass the 

 body through about 3 feet above the floor until we opened up a way. Some 

 of the blocks are still incorporated with the stalagmite. It seems probable 

 that the impediment here was such as to cut off 



Hy^na Land, 



the section which we now enter. On working within this portal we at once 

 unearthed such abundance of bones, including those of Hya?nas, as we had 

 never yet found ; and this richness of animal remains continued through all 

 portions of this very distinct section of the cave. It presented special 

 features, the gallery structure being modified as follows : — The sand-bed was 

 never far below the roof, seldom allowing one to stand upright ; all the 

 galleries that we worked had an abundance of it often packed tightly. The 

 roof-vaulting, where present, consisted of a small pointed arch above the 

 tipper stalagmite, and the swelling tunnel was absent as well as the profoundly 

 deep trench. Where the trench existed it was in a sloping rock-bed discon- 

 nected with the roof in an open space chamber or hall. There was a series of 

 east and west openings connecting the galleries and in some cases terminating 

 them. There is moreover no steady air-current here, such as we used to find 

 elsewhere, and at times candles burn dimly in Hya-na Land. The nearness 

 to the surface was realized when we heard a mowing-machine overhead. In 



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