text:  It _was_ a fairish place to all appearances--a snug ravine well shaded by mahogany-trees the ground covered with the luxuriant vegetation of that tropical region a little stream bubbling and leaping and dashing down one of the high rocks that flanked the hollow and rippling away through the tall fern towards the rear of the spot where we had halted at the distance of a hundred yards from which the ground was low and shelving