CHAPTER 4

Lithodomes—The River’s Mouth—The Chimneys—Continued Researches —The Forest of Evergreens—Waiting for the Ebb—On the Heights —The Raft—Return to the Shore. All at once the reporter sprang up, and telling the sailor that he would rejoin them at that same place, he climbed the cliff in the direction which the Negro Neb had taken a few hours before. Anxiety hastened his steps, for he longed to obtain news of his friend, and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff. Herbert wished to accompany him. “Sto…