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"Excellent!" said Elsie "When we reach the ship I shall write down

everything you tell in to understand"

Whereupon, Courtenay took thought, and explained that the channel which

flowed through that a cut in the cliff led to the crater of an

extinct volcano, into which the sea poured twenty feet of water each

tide An aled within, as the water

entered by a side-long channel, and sent a whirlpool spinning with the

hands of the clock until the enorainst

thee on a wide,

sulphur-coated ledge high above the vortex, and the presence of several

skeletons showed that ainst pursuit Every Alaculof knew of this retreat, but few

dared approach it, as the roar of the water far below appalled them

There was only one path; when the hunters closed that their prey was

safe The alternative to capture was death by starvation The

Chileans, and he hi of dried berries stolen by the girl when she first led the