r their
greed, would allow them to break and bury silver and gold. Is it
possible, then, that, as amongst men one hand washes the other, so in
the animal kingdom one species conceals the crimes of another?

Having spent the night in a Portuguese inn, woven like an eagle's nest
out of bamboos, and clinging to the almost vertical side of a rock, we
rose at daybreak, and, having visited all the points de vue famed for
their beauty, made our preparations to return to Narel. By daylight
the panorama was still more splendid than by night; volumes would not
suffice to describe it. Had it not been that on three sides the horizon
was shut out by rugged ridges of mountain, the whole of the Deccan
plateau would have appeared before our eyes. Bombay was so distinct that
it seemed quite near to us, and the channel that separates the town from
Salsetta shone like a tiny silvery streak. It winds like a snake on its
way to the port, surrounding Kanari and other islets, which look the
very image of green peas scattered on the white cloth of its bright
waters, and, finally, joins the blinding line of the Indian Ocean in the
extreme distance. On the outer side is the northern Konkan, terminated
by the Tal-Ghats, the needle-like summits of the Jano-Maoli rocks, and,
lastly, the battlemented ridge of Funell, whose bold silhouette stands
out in strong relief against the distant blue of the dim sky, like a
giant's castle in some fairy tale. Further on looms Parbul, whose flat
summit, in the days of old, was the seat of the gods, whence, according
to the legends, Vishnu spoke to mortals. And there below, where the
defile widens into a valley, all covered with huge separate rocks, each
of which is crowded with historical and mythological legends, you may
perceive the dim blue ridge of mountains, still loftier and still more
strangely shaped. That is Khandala, which is overhung by a huge stone
block, known by the name of the Duke's Nose. On the opposite side, under
the very summit of the mountain, is situated Karli, which, according
to the unanimous opinion or archeologists, is the most ancient and best
preserved of Indian cave temples.

One who has traversed the passes of the Caucasus again and again; one
who, from the top of the Cross Mountain, has beheld beneath her feet
thunderstorms and lightnings; who has visited the Alps and the Rigi;
who is well acquainted with the Andes and Cordilleras, and knows
every corner of the Catskills in Americ