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GREAT RUNGEET. 



Chap. VI. 



turned-up eyes, and seemed to think we were safe from all 

 perils in the valleys yet to be explored. 



In the gorge of the Rungeet the heat was intolerable, 

 though the thermometer did not rise above 95°. The 



PINKS (PIN US LONGIFOL1A), RUN GELT valley. 



mountains leave but a narrow gorge between them, here and 

 there bordered by a belt of strong soil, supporting a towering 

 crop of long cane-like grasses and tall trees. The troubled 

 river, about eighty yards across, rages along over a 



