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derobo villages, and it was evident the natives who 
occupied them were abandoning their homes in ter¬ 
ror before our descending column. Sometimes we 
groped our way through great forests in which 
there was no trail to follow, and sometimes we cut 
our way through dense jungle thickets like a solid 
wall of vegetation. 
Galloping Lions 
TJpon several occasions we came to impassable 
places where an abrupt cliff would necessitate a 
tiresome return and a new attempt. Once we came 
to a little clearing in the vast forest where the grass 
was like a lawn and where towering trees rose like 
the arches of a great cathedral a hundred feet 
above. It was the most beautiful, serene and majes- 
