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Updated: June 6, 2025
After crossing the fetid Besáon by its ricketty bridge of planks, we find on the right hand, facing Messieurs Swanzy's, a fine bit of rising ground, which I shall call, after its proprietor, 'Mount Irvine. Over the southern slope runs a cleared highway, which presently becomes a 'bush-path; it is named the 'Dudley Road, after an energetic District-commissioner.
Then, swift as light, he glided behind the tree, where Henderson stood with Percy in his arms, and, convulsively gripping the other's outstretched hand, he murmured: "A thousand thanks, old fellow! Now, which way are we to go?" "I arranged for Manners and Nicholls to join us in the bush-path yonder; never dreaming that those two men would be posted there," whispered Henderson in return.
I conscientiously attempt to keep dry, by holding up an umbrella, knowing that though hopeless it is the proper thing to do. We leave the road about fifty yards above the hut, turning into the unbroken forest on the right-hand side, and following a narrow, slippery, muddy, root-beset bush-path that was a comfort after the road.
Here is his own simple record of the way he got to the hearts of the Levy: "How they enjoy the palaver in which I tell them that 'they are the eyes to the body of the snake which is crawling up the bush-path from the coast, and coiling for its spring!
Give me the child, my arms are still benumbed and scarcely fit to hold a rifle, but I can carry him. So, that is it" as Henderson handed over little Percy "now let us make a run for it." Therewith the two friends started at top speed for the entrance of the bush-path, running straight toward the two Malay sentinels.
A few seconds more, and Jim saw a small opening among the brushwood disclosing an Indian "bush-path"; it was along this that the Chilian had gone, and Douglas now himself dashed into the wood, tearing his hands, face, and clothes on the sharp thorns with which the path was bordered. Once inside the wood he was out of sight of the Peruvians; and hope lent wings to his feet.
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