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beaming from the caves of the cliff dwell¬ 
ers on the perpendicular side of the 
mountain. Truly it was a strange, wild 
sight. 
One of the lights that was “ raised,” as 
the sailors would say, in the evening, was 
in what seemed to be a perpendicular 
cliff on the opposite side of the mighty 
barranca, as near as we could make out 
in the gloom of the falling night. Its 
position was located, and, surely enough, 
on the next day our conjectures were 
verified, for we could see a few dim 
dottings showing caves, while to the 
main one led up a steep talus of ddbris 
that tapered to a point just in front of 
the entrance. Strangest of all, but a 
little way down the side of this very 
steep talus, so very steep that one would 
have had much difficulty in ascending 
