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.ve had been told about soitb bat caves that were located on the 
mountain- side above the tOTO, and as f'rop:s frequently hide in such 
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laces, I was eager to explore them* 77e soon left the good roads, conse 
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quently, and s trucked up into the loountain on a narrow mulepath. On 
the v7ay ive passed many abandoned ^oldminirig' tunnels, and decided to 
explore one of them* ivy companion 'went in fii'st/ with our one flash- 
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light. It is an indescribably queer sensation to follow ten feet behind 
a little dancing disk of liaht into utter blackness, the walls on each 
side slimy to the touch, the drip-dn^p of water from every ledge, sone of 
it hitting the back of youi* neck, "the floor uneven and slippery, ^rour 
feet feeling the way araong boulders you can not see, tr^ang to avoid the 
numerous holes in the floor, your head sometiines striking the roof where it 
suddenly drops, and every effort concentrated on trying not to get too 
far behind the light* -Finally the tunnel heightened, and bats were fly- 
ing about, cisturbed by the light. 7/e hit at them with our^ trimmed 
tree-branches to stun them as they flew by us, but the^^ skilfully eluded 
us. On the way back to the entrance, we saw some frogs hopping about on 
the floor of the tunnel, and bagged them at once* Outside in the brilliant 
sunshine we climbed again, and our procession was augmented by a negro boy 
and man, who told us there were ponds and a rivulet containing frogs 
just a little ways further over the curve of the mountain. Tfe doubted 
this ’^little v/ay s ta. tsmerit, but decided to try for it nevertheless. 
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.xs v/e vyent higher and higher, the whole valley?- unrolled befor*e us until 
it seemed that we were looking over the edge of the ?7orld. A drop of 
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about 80 straight dov/n from our 'oath impelled the boy , . ^ .e 
to dislodge rocks and let them hurtle down the slope, bumping and 
thumaing on the mountain side and then bounding off into space again* 
