? ? ? ? The Carrion Caves consist of a series of twenty-seven connecting chambers, and present the appearance of having been eroded by running water in some far-gone age when a mighty river found its way to the south through this single breach in the barrier of rock and ice that hems the country of the pole.
? ? ? ? Thuvan Dihn and I traversed the remaining nineteen caverns without adventure or mishap.
? ? ? ? We were afterward to learn that but once a month is it possible to find all the apts of the Carrion Caves in a single chamber.
? ? ? ? At other times they roam singly or in pairs in and out of the caves, so that it would have been practically impossible for two men to have passed through the entire twenty-seven chambers without encountering an apt in nearly every one of them. Once a month they sleep for a full day, and it was our good fortune to stumble by accident upon one of these occasions.
? ? ? ? Beyond the last cave we emerged into a desolate country of snow and ice, but found a well-marked trail leading north.
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