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breadth; and the end, or what was intended for the 
end, turned up, revealing such cavernous nostrils, 
that I often wondered why he did not utilize them in 
rainy weather and crawl into them out of the wet. 
Beneath these wide, dilated nostrils protruded a pair 
of lips without an equal this side of Toby; the upper 
one formed a protecting ledge, a threshold to the nasal. 
caverns, and met the lower in a line that looked like 
a cut in a beefsteak. Between eyes and nose and 
mouth, there was little of Toby left, except wool and 
ears and a narrow strip of forehead, to constitute his 
head. The wool was of the kinkiest; and the ears, 
they might have been small for a large elephant, but 
they were certainly large for even a good-sized negro. 
The general make-up of Toby was in keeping with 
his features: large was he from his crown to his feet. 
As for those useful members of locomotion, I can only 
affirm as my belief that if my hammock had hung 
lower than it did—two feet from the ground — it 
would have brushed Toby’s toes as he lay prostrate on 
his back. 
In the night it commenced to rain, and during the 
succeeding days and nights that we stayed in the cave, 
five in all, rain fell with little intermission. I awoke 
at daybreak, my watch indicating five o’clock. A 
mist covered the mountains, a dense cloud filled the 
crater. It had rained all night, and everything was 
saturated; a most comfortless morning; yet, up from 
the trees beneath the cave, from ravine and hidden 
glen, from the crater’s very heart, came the melodious 
notes of the soufriére-bird. A little later, I heard 
the whistle of a bird new to me, and the notes of the 
“wall bird,” the house wren, and the chirping of 
