Above the ascent a long tunnel, after which the line falls again towards the sea.

The landscape took a nobler beauty; mountains spread before us, tenderly coloured by the autumn sun.

We crossed two or three rivers--rivers of flowing water, their banks overhung with dense green jungle.

The sea was azure, and looked very calm, but white waves broke loudly upon the strand, last murmur of the storm which had raged and renewed itself for nearly a fortnight.
At one of the wayside stations entered a traveller whom I could not but regard with astonishment.

He was a man at once plump and muscular, his sturdy limbs well exhibited in a shooting costume.