the
procession, with the three Chiefs and John at the head, marched across
the open, and up the hill past the grove, on its way to the cave on the
eastern slope of the high hill which rose from the shore of the ocean.

There was jest and laughter, the Chief enjoying the treat that would be
the greatest pleasure of his life, namely, the bringing of the Korinos
out of the cave.

After ascending the great hill, so that they overlooked the ocean, the
Chief informed John that the entrance was a third of the way down the
hill, and the narrow path was followed which led around to the north,
shutting out the sight of the sea.

After a few hundred feet, the path led to a cleft portion of the rocks,
where the light of the sun was completely hidden. The walls of the
rocks, at the entrance of the cleft portion, were fully fifty feet high,
and were at least twenty feet apart, but as they went on the walls drew
nearer together and the path ascended a slight incline.

A sharp turn was reached, and they found themselves in a little cove, to
the left of which was a dark entrance, toward which the Chief nodded, as
he shrank back.

John motioned to the Chief, and the latter sternly commanded John to
bring forth the Korinos. John said a few words to Uraso and Muro, and
also invited the boys to accompany them.

"I suppose you are all armed?" said John.

The boys and the chiefs had come well prepared, so this point was taken
care of.

"But where are the lights?" asked George.

"I have them," said John, "but we shall not use them now, for reasons
which will be explained later." Together they entered the cave, the
darkness of which was appalling. After going in fully a hundred and
fifty feet, John stopped and said: "It would have been a sign of
weakness to go in with a light. When we have gone far enough to be free
from the mouth of the cave, we can use our flash lights. For the present
we shall move on to ascertain whether the Korinos are provided with
lights, which will show where they are, and we may thus be guided to
them."

The distance traveled must have been fully a thousand feet, when John
again spoke: "I shall now throw the light directly ahead, and you must
keep your eyes open to detect anything moving."

The light flashed, and was then moved slowly to the left, until it
reached a cove at the extreme eastern side, where there was an evident
assemblage of articles, not a hundred feet in advance of them, but there
was no