eath-trap."

So here we were rescued, and we started at once, every one carefully
avoiding the slightest reference to the fate of our pursuers, while in
the broad light of day, in place of looking terrible, the chasm was
simply grand. The cool rolling water seemed to bring with it a soft
sweet breeze that made us feel elastic, and refreshed us as we trudged
along at an ordinary rate, for there was no fear now of pursuit.

So with one or two halts we walked on all day till I felt eager to get
out from between the prison-like walls to where the trees were waving,
and we could hear the voices of the birds. Here there was nothing but
stone, stone as high as we could see.

It was a great drawback our not being able to converse with the bearers,
but we amended this a little every hour, for Ti-hi struggled hard to
make us understand how much he knew about the place and how he knew that
there were such floods as this from time to time.

We managed to learn from him, too, that we should not escape from the
gorge that night, and to our dismay we had to encamp on a broad shelf
when the sun went down; but the night proved to be clear and calm, and
morning broke without any adventure to disturb our much-needed rest.

The gorge had been widening out, though, a great deal on the previous
evening, and by noon next day, when we paused for a rest after a long
tramp over constantly-rising ground, we were beyond risk from any such
storm as that which had nearly been our destruction, but as we rested
amid some bushes beside what was a mere gurgling stream, one of several
into which the river had branched, Ti-hi contrived to make us understand
that we were not in safety, for there were people here who were ready to
fight and kill, according to his words and pantomimic action, which
Jimmy took upon himself to explain.

For days and days we journeyed on finding abundance of food in the river
and on its banks by means of gun and hook and line. The blacks were
clever, too, at finding for us roots and fruit, with tender shoots of
some kind of grassy plant that had a sweet taste, pleasantly acid as
well, bunches of which Jimmy loved to stick behind him in his waistband
so that it hung down like a bushy green tail that diminished as he
walked, for he kept drawing upon it till it all was gone.

Now and then, too, we came upon the great pale-green broad leaves of a
banana or plantain, which was a perfect treasure.

Jimmy was generally the