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Directly past these priests ere driven like cattle, finding ourselves plunged into a vast square gloo an earthen floor, but utterly devoid of either furnishings or orna at the farther side, and in the centre a huge log s upon what bore the appearance of a rudely chipped altar of rock About this were ranged nurotesque and hideous, while a third figure, attired as were the aged priests without, lay prone upon the earththickly with undressed skins of wild anihtly upraised platfor toward the second curtained door It was in the midst of this we halted, still under strict surveillance of our brutal guards These, however, permitted us to sink down exhausted on the hard floor