Inside that notch in the cliffs must be the wooded bay, whence we picked up the shells among the fallen leaves and flowers.

From under that dark wall beyond it the Guacharos must be just trooping out for their nightly forage, as they had trooped out since--He alone who made them knows how long.

The outline of Huevos, the outline of Monos, were growing lower and grayer astern.

A long ragged haze, far loftier than that on the starboard quarter, signified the Northern Mountains; and far off on the port quarter lay a flat bank of cloud, amid which rose, or seemed to rise, the Cordillera of the Main, and the hills where jaguars lie.

Canopus blazed high astern, and Fomalhaut below him to the west, as if bidding us a kind farewell.