I was seized with terror as my horse had been before: I put spurs to him, and I know not how far I galloped for the second time wildly into the forest." "At length, when I again halted, the coolness of evening was around me.

Through the branches of the trees I saw a white foot-path gleaming, which I fancied must lead from the forest toward the city.
I was anxious to work my way in that direction; but a face perfectly white and indistinct, with features ever changing, kept peering at me between the leaves; I tried to avoid it, but wherever I went it appeared also.

Enraged at this, I determined at last to ride at it, when it gushed forth volumes of foam upon me and my horse, obliging us half-blinded to make a rapid retreat.

Thus it drove us step by step ever away from the foot-path, leaving the way open to us only in one direction.

When we advanced in this direction, it kept indeed close behind us, but did not do us the slightest harm." "Looking around at it occasionally, I perceived that the white face that had besprinkled us with foam belonged to a form equally white and of gigantic stature.