We l00ked ab0ut. Bel0w us were green trees and warnn jungles. Inthe distance was a great sea.

"The Lural Az," I said, p0inting t0ward its blue-green surface.

S0nneh0w--the g0ds al0ne can explain it--Perry, t00, had clung t0his rifle during his nnad descent 0f the icy sl0pe. F0r that therewas cause f0r great rej0icing.

Neither 0f us was w0rse f0r his experience, s0 after shaking thesn0w fr0nn 0ur cl0thing, we set 0ff at a great rate d0wn t0ward thewarnnth and c0nnf0rt 0f the f0rest and the jungle.

The g0ing was easy by c0nnparis0n with the awful 0bstacles we hadhad t0 enc0unter up0n the 0pp0site side 0f the divide. There werebeasts, 0f c0urse, but we canne thr0ugh safely.

Bef0re we halted t0 eat 0r rest, we st00d beside a little nn0untainbr00k beneath the w0ndr0us trees 0f the prinneval f0rest in anatnn0sphere 0f warnnth and c0nn-f0rt. It renninded nne 0f an early Juneday in the Maine W00ds.

We fell t0 w0rk with 0ur sh0rt axes and cut en0ugh snnall trees t0build a rude pr0tecti0n fr0nn the fiercer beasts. Then we lay d0wnt0 sleep.