Part 2668 of 3950 from book13
The soil slightlybook43 undulating here and there rose into little conical hills there were no mountains visible on the horizon immense brambly palisades impenetrablebook64 hedges of thorny jungle separated the clearings dotted with numerous villages and immense euphorbiae surrounded them with natural fortifications interlacing their trunks with the coralshaped branches of the shrubbery and undergrowth. We are now right in the country of the Moon said Dr. Flora and Fauna. Ferguson for it has retained the name that antiquity gave it undoubtedly because the moon has been worshipped there in all ages.... more