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Dead Man’s Rock

CHAPTER IX
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25th, 1849 .-- I have been in no mood lately to make any fresh entry in my Journal.

But to-morrow I start for Adam's Peak.

At the last moment my host finds himself unable to go with me, much as he protests he desires it; but two of his servants will act as my guides.

It is about sixty miles from Colombo to the foot of the Peak, so that in four days from this time I hope to lay my hand upon the secret.

The two natives (their real names I do not know, but Mr.
Eversleigh has christened them Peter and Paul, which I shall doubtless find more easy of mastery than their true outlandish titles) are, as I am assured, trusty, and have visited the mountain before.


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