Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 51
eep holes and ugly-looking croc-odiles was too great for them to proceed. SoRaheh, the chief bearer, uttered a curious cry, orsignal, which soon brought into view a lakana, orcanoe, rudely fashioned from a hollow tree-trunk;and in it a native was paddling rapidly toward them. Harry and his father… … THE LACE-LEAF OF MADAGASCAR. native boatman had been paid, the party enteredthe great forest of Alamazaotra, which covers morethan forty miles of wild and mountainous country. Their path at once led them through a gorge sonarrow that the sides of the palanquin grazed therocky walls, and the masses…
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