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Who could have Foreseen it?

           "DoIhelpyoutorealizethattheplateaucontainssomeanimallife?"

           Ihavesaidthatathickfringeofgreenoverhungtheedgeofthecliff.Outofthistherehademergedablack,glisteningobject.Asitcameslowlyforthandoverhungthechasm,wesawthatitwasaverylargesnakewithapeculiarflat,spade-likehead.Itwaveredandquiveredaboveusforaminute,themorningsungleaminguponitssleek,sinuouscoils.Thenitslowlydrewinwardsanddisappeared.

           SummerleehadbeensointerestedthathehadstoodunresistingwhileChallengertiltedhisheadintotheair.Nowheshookhiscolleagueoffandcamebacktohisdignity.

           "Ishouldbeglad,ProfessorChallenger,"saidhe,"ifyoucouldseeyourwaytomakeanyremarkswhichmayoccurtoyouwithoutseizingmebythechin.Eventheappearanceofaveryordinaryrockpythondoesnotappeartojustifysuchaliberty."

           "Butthereislifeupontheplateauallthesame,"hiscolleaguerepliedintriumph."Andnow,havingdemonstratedthisimportantconclusionsothatitiscleartoanyone,howeverprejudicedorobtuse,Iamofopinionthatwecannotdobetterthanbreakupourcampandtraveltowestwarduntilwefindsomemeansofascent."

           Thegroundatthefootofthecliffwasrockyandbrokensothatthegoingwasslowanddifficult.Suddenlywecame,however,uponsomethingwhichcheeredourhearts.

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