Chapter
6
THE LAD AND THE LION ENTERED NORTHERN AFRICA AT A POINT where the desert comes closest to the sea. As they wandered away from the ocean, walking side by side, the youth at the lion's shoulder, they were bent merely upon an expedition of discovery-at least this was true of the boy.
About him were strange and wonderful sights that filled him with amazement and delight. The broad stretches of open, rolling country; the hills in the distance; the trees and bushes-all seemed a veritable fairyland to one who had never before dreamed that anything but a dreary waste of tumbling water lay beyond the narrow confines of the drifting derelict that had been his world.
Far to the right the lad saw the dark green of dense foliage winding toward the hills. It was the jungle which clothed th
