mesa

Presently, however, we topped the thing and stood upon the level mesa which crowned it.

Across the mesa we went, to stop at last before a large pile of rocks in which an opening appeared.

My guard conducted me far-ther into the mesa, where we came presently to a tiny depression or valley, at one end of which gushed a warm spring.

They had no wars and had always lived in peace and harmony, menaced only by the larger carniv-ora of the island, until my kind had come under a crea-ture called Hooja, and attacked and killed them when they chanced to descend from their natural fortresses to visit their fellows upon other lofty mesas.

Still climbing, although he paused often from sheer physical weakness, they scaled forest-clad heights until they emerged on a naked mesa or tableland.

With a body of which he was scarcely aware, for even the pain had been exhausted out of it, and with a bright clear brain that accommodated him to a quiet ecstasy of sheer lucidness of thought, he lay back on the lurching litter and watched the fading of the passing world, beholding for the last time the breadfruit tree before the devil- devil house, the dim day beneath the matted jungle roof, the gloomy gorge between the shouldering mountains, the saddle of raw limestone, and the mesa of black volcanic sand.