In Search of an Unknown Race — page 75: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

VAN. 65 CHAPTER IX. DRAWING NEARER TO ITAMBEZ Wuen nearly opposite the column, Van noticed with surprise that the surface was graven in places by the hand of man. There were strange hieroglyphics in regular rotation, and not entirely unlike the pictures he had seen of those - found among the ruins in Yucatan and Mexico. But conceive his wondering amazement when a nearer approach showed on the front of the column the device or insignia of the serpent encircling the hand holding a lighted torch, deeply cut on the front of the rock, in such heroic size that it could be seen from either bank of the river. For the moment Van forgot his privation, hunger, aches and pains. Here was at last a convincing proof that admitted of no question as to the reality of the province he was seeking—a mark, perhaps, of the beginning of the boundaries of Itambezi the treasure land ! Above the sculptured pillar the river bent abruptly to the west, and the tall forest on either hand gave place to a lower growth. And as Van’s canoe rounded the green curve, his heart gave another great throb of joy. Outlined against the distant horizon were the irregular Eomicboo “S (G(0) m