Suiting the action to the word, Joe stopped and fastened our boat,
and we both commenced climbing the face of the rock, by means of two
or three jutting points, that could hardly have been observed from the
river, until we had reached the ledge.
" Here ! " said Joe, " I found the critter, right behind this. I pulled
him out, and then I thought I 'd see where this opening went to. — Come
in, come in ! "

We entered and found ourselves in an irregular but roomy apartment.-
The dim light, as we had no torches with us, enabled me to form but a
very indefinite idea of its size, but I could not but think what a palace it
would have been thought by the Troglodytes, of whom I had just been
reading in Herodotus. Several large cracks and orifices led off to other
parts of the cavern ; but as we had no light, and Joe was anxious to get
to the camping ground, which he had selected some six or eight miles
above, I had no opportunity of examining it very closely at the time, al-
though afterwards I had good cause to know it better.
