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uniformity in height of these masses, and the narrow spaces left between them, which form an effectual labyrinth—leaves and sky are all that can be seen overhead, and these curious boles of roots and decayed vegetable matter on both sides, before and behind, except now and then, where a penguin peeps forth from his hole, or the traveller stumbles over a huge sea-lion, stretched along the ground, blocking up his path."
