Trip 213 of 4900 collection book65
As for the traces whichbook61 Barbicane ought to have left of his passage through the wood there was not a vestige of them visible so they followed the barely perceptible paths along which Indians had tracked some enemy and which the dense foliage darkly overshadowed. T. It was a dense thicket in which rose huge cypresses sycamores tuliptrees olives tamarinds oaks and magnolias. On seeing him they remained stupefied. The hideous creature instead of rushing on its prey had beaten a sudden retreat and taken refuge in the upper branches of the tuliptree for a formidable enemy menaced its stronghold.... read all
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