Scribner's magazine . on the anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their .\shoulders. At least, so they say. For my part, I have neverseen any such. And I have now no desire to go to Prester^!Johns Kingdom, since I have been told that he has lalelmarried Pope Joan. Do you see that grove of trees thef(^athe base of the mountains ? 1 answered that I thought I could distinguish weirdiy^^ntorted branches and strangely shivering foliage That is the deadly upas-tree, he explained, andmuch as a mans life is worth to lie down in the shadetwisted limbs. I slept there, on that point where t
Scribner's magazine . on the anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their .\shoulders. At least, so they say. For my part, I have neverseen any such. And I have now no desire to go to Prester^!Johns Kingdom, since I have been told that he has lalelmarried Pope Joan. Do you see that grove of trees thef(^athe base of the mountains ? 1 answered that I thought I could distinguish weirdiy^^ntorted branches and strangely shivering foliage That is the deadly upas-tree, he explained, andmuch as a mans life is worth to lie down in the shadetwisted limbs. I slept there, on that point where the trees are^the thickest, for a fortnight a century or so ago—but all I hadfor my pains was a headache. Still I should not advise youto adventure yourself under the shadow of those melancholy^boughs. V^l,,^. ^ r^Fconfess at once that I was little prompted to a visit so^^^J^ ^J;^^ ^dangerous and so profitless. ^-i^j^^^^^^^^^^Cp %,^P^. , Profitless ? he repeated. As to that I am not so cer-lain, for if you have a mind to see the rarest animals in theworld, you could there sate your curiosity. On the shore,^-between the foot-hills and the grove of upas, is a park of wildl>^asts, the like of which no man has looked upon elsewher^^jEven from the deck of this ship I have seen more than oncea /|^ pve of unicorns, or a herd of centaurs, come down to the water iWt. drink; and sometimes I have caught a pleasant glimpse ^^^^Jl^yji/f&ratyrs and fauns the sunlight. And once indeed / ^—I shall never forget that extraordinary spectacle—as I spedpast with every sail set and a ten-knot breeze astern, I sawthe phoenix blaze up in its new birth, while the little salaman-ders frisked in the intense flame. /^ ^.,^ ^^/y^WA )\^/.^m^j^. ,,r^^^ phoenix ? I cried. >;;Yotv have -a eu rlio pKuiiix ^br-,^
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