Who would have thought of a great elephant having climbed up here?
One would fancy such unwieldy creatures quite incapable of ascending a mountain." "Ah! there you would be in error: for, singular as it may appear, the elephant is a wonderful climber, and can make his way almost anywhere that a man can go.

It is a fact, that in the island of Ceylon the wild elephants are often found upon the top of Adam's Peak--to scale which is trying to the nerves of the stoutest travellers.

It would not be surprising to find one here.

Rather, I may say, it _is_ not: for now I feel certain what we have just seen is an elephant, since it can be nothing else.

He may have entered this valley before us--by straying up the glacier as we did, and crossing the chasm by the rock bridge--which I know he could have done as well as we.