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Elsie had slept long and soundly: she found herself in a neorld of

sunshine and calm When she looked over the side to examine the

crudely fashioned canoe, she was astonished by the limpid purity of the

water She could see white pebbles and vegetation at a vast depth It

seemed to be ie, but Suarez assured her that the streaes of the hills ran clear quickly after rain, owing to

the sifting of the surface drainage by the phenoe on the hillsides," he told her, "fallen

trunks lie in layers of fifteen or twenty feet They rot there, and

young saplings push their way through to the light and air, while

creepers bind them in an impenetrable e take root a stumps

beneath, so that even the Indians cannot pass from one point to

another, but are compelled to clilaciers When you see what appears to be a sreen

space above the lower brown-colored belt of copper beech, that is not a

moss-covered stretch of open land, but the closely packed tops of young

trees, where a new tract has been bared by an avalanche"

She was in noto assimilate the marvels of Hanover

Island Her brain had been cleared, restored to the nor sleep With a more active perception of the curious

difficulties which beset the Kansas cahtness of nature served rather to convert the ship into a