They gave, as their reason for so proceeding, that the arms of the Sorcerer were long, and that it was dangerous to be the last.

The which was of little comfort to me who of this necessity took that honourable post.
In the narrowest part of the valley, on the south side, was a great cliff of rock, rising sheer, of smooth and even surface.

Hereon were graven certain cabalistic signs, and many figures of men and animals, fishes, reptiles and birds; suns and stars; and many quaint symbols.
Some of these latter were disjointed limbs and features, such as arms and legs, fingers, eyes, noses, ears, and lips.

Mysterious symbols which will puzzle the Recording Angel to interpret at the Judgment Day.
The cliff faced exactly north.

There was something about it so strange, and so different from the other carved rocks which I had visited, that I called a halt and spent the day in examining the rock front as well as I could with my telescope.