I then left the stream and struck straight up into the woods, as nearly as possible toward the clump.
"I put up a few rabbits and a great many pigeons.

I also saw an animal that I believe to have been a wolf, but it retreated with such rapidity that I lost sight of it among the tree stems.

There was very little undergrowth, as often happens under pines, but the boughs overhead formed a close screen, and the heat was very oppressive.
After about an hour's walking I emerged on a cliff above the sea, having mistaken my direction, and crossed the island diagonally.

On getting clear of the trees I could again see the goal of my walk, the clump, this time a good deal nearer; and now resolutely plunging into the wood, and keeping always slightly to the right, for I saw that my bias was to the left, I came at last to a place where I could see the sides of a mound through the trees rather indistinctly.
"All of a sudden I came to a low wall among the trees, overgrown in some places, but opposite me almost entirely clear.

It was built of large stones carefully fitted together, like the architecture that I remembered to have seen called Cyclopean in architectural histories of Greece.