The Rajah's Fortress — page 164: what you’re looking at

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THE RAJAH’S FORTRESS. 153 tunnel, and leaving the men just inside the entrance Guy and Topee crept cautiously to the mouth. It was with strange emotions that Guy gazed into that dreaded and mysterious little valley among the mountains. No white man had ever seen the place, none had ever trodden the stone floor of the tunnel except as a prisoner in the hands of the dacoits, a prisoner destined to death in its most horrible forms. Many such had no doubt entered this valley, for the list of missing Englishmen was large. Guy’s achievement was indeed remarkable, for the perils that surrounded them were of the most dreaded nature. As yet he could see but little, nothing at all in fact, for the moon was low and the air thick with the gloom that precedes the dawn. His eye could trace the semicircular shape of the mountains, and could faintly distinguish something dark and irregular in the valley. Topee roused him from his train of thought by a rap on the shoulder, and motioning him a step forward, he pointed at the figure of a sleeping man a few paces in front of the mouth. He was a big dark-skinned fellow. His repose could not have been easy, for he tossed about, and once or twice opened his eyes. “See there,” whispered Topee. ‘ Much dry limb on ground. Makee bignoise. Man wake up. Me fix him. Me go in jungle off there,” and he pointed to the left. “Then me callhim. You ge COLUM 1OOO SS co