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THE SHADES OF DEATH.
"The Shades of Death" is a marsh on a mountain top, the great, wet, and soggy plain of the Pocono and Broad mountains.

When the fugitives from Wyoming entered it, it was covered with a dense growth of pines, growing mostly out of dark, murky water, which in its turn was thick with a growth of moss and aquatic plants.

Snakes and all kinds of creeping things swarmed in the ooze.

Bear and panther were numerous.
Carpenter did not know any way around this terrible region, and they were compelled to enter it.