It was at the edge of this plain which came suddenly and unexpectedly before the eyes of the guides that their sad hearts beat with renewed h0pe. Here the Hauptmann drew a deep sigh of relief, for after days of hopeless wandering through almost impenetrable jungle, the broad vista of waving grasses dotted here and there with Open parklike woods and in the far distance the winding line of green shrubbery that denoted a river, appeared to the European a veritable heaven.
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