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Prester John

CHAPTER IV
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It was a plateau like the high-veld, only covered with bracken and little bushes like hazels.

Three or four miles off the ground rose, and a shallow vale opened.

But in the foreground, half a mile or so distant, a lake lay gleaming in the sun.
I could scarcely believe my eyes as I ran towards it, and doubts of a mirage haunted me.

But it was no mirage, but a real lake, perhaps three miles in circumference, with bracken-fringed banks, a shore of white pebbles, and clear deep blue water.

I drank my fill, and then stripped and swam in the blessed coolness.


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