In Search of an Unknown Race — page 120: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XVI. VAN MAKES AN ENEMY. But the most impressive and wonderful of all the sights of Itambez, according to Van's account, was what he saw in the great burial cave beyond the city walls, whither he was accompanied by Ninada and Flores—the latter having taken it into his handsome head to accompany the cousins whenever it was possi- ble—not always to the satisfaction of the young girl or her escort. ‘‘T used to think much of Flores when we were both younger ; he almost seemed like a brother to me then,” Ninada confided to Van one day, ‘‘but for the past year he is—somehow different.” And Van wondered whether it was the little flush which crossed the girl’s fair cheek as she spoke, that suddenly suggested to his own mind what the difference might consist in. The burial cave was itself a vast cavern of almost infinite extent, running far back into the bowels of one of the mountains adjoining Escomada. Massive sculptured pillars engraved with strange characters stood on either side of the lofty entrance. Just inside was the temple, where the last burial rights were performed, (CEOPMICEOOOLKS (EC)