FOREST endless and splendid! We white men often saw no path, but the red-brown men saw it.

It ran level, it climbed, it descended; then began the three again.

It was lost, it was found.

They said, "Here path!" But we had to serpent through thickets, or make way on edge of dizzy crag, or find footing through morass.

We came to great stretches of reeds and yielding grass, giving with every step into water.