Beyond the mouth was water which seemed to be about two hundred yards wide, and beyond the water rose the slopes of the mountain that was covered with huge trees.

Moreover, a little bay penetrated into the cavern, the point of which bay ended between the two fires.

Here the water, which was not more than six or eight feet wide, and shallow, formed the berthing place of a good-sized canoe that lay there.

The walls of the cavern, from the turn to the point of the tongue of water, were pierced with four doorways, two on either side, which led, I presume, to chambers hewn in the rock.

At each of these doorways stood a tall woman clothed in white, who held in her hand a burning torch.