Several boulders of large dimensions rested upon the ground, at short distances apart; and there was one of a pillar-shape that stood some twenty-feet high, while it was only about five or six in diameter.

It bore a sort of rude resemblance to an obelisk; and one might easily have fancied that the hand of man had accomplished its erection.

For all that, it was a mere freak of Nature, and had probably been set up by ancient glacier ice.

Up one of its sides there was a series of projections, by which an active man might climb to the top; and Ossaroo _did_ climb it, partly out of playfulness, and partly, as he said, to get a better view of the cliff.

The shikaree stayed only a few minutes on its top; and his curiosity having been satisfied, he had let himself down again..