of the sun, and some dozen yards away, suddenly there appeared the
gigantic figure of a man, for, unless the fog deceived them, he must
have been between six and seven feet high and broad in proportion. Of
his face they could see nothing, but he was clad in goat-skins, and
armed with a great spear and a bow slung upon his back.

Juanna was the first to see and point him out to Leonard with a start of
fear, as he stood watching them in solemn silence. Obeying the impulse
of the moment, Leonard stepped forward towards the vision holding his
rifle ready, but before he reached the spot where it had stood the
figure vanished.

Then he walked back again to Juanna. "I think we have heard so much of
giants that we begin to believe we see them," he said laughing.

As he spoke something clove the air between them and stuck in the earth
beyond. They went to it. It was a large arrow having a barbed point and
flighted with red feathers.

"This is a very tangible fancy at any rate," Juanna answered, drawing
the shaft out of the ground. "We have had a narrow escape."

Leonard did not speak, but raising his rifle he fired it at a venture in
the direction whence the arrow had sped. Then he ran to put their little
band in a position of defence, Juanna following him. But, as it chanced,
he might have spared himself the trouble, for nothing further happened;
indeed, the net outward and visible result of this mysterious apparition
was that they spent a miserable night, waiting in the fog and wet--for
it had come on to rain, or rather drizzle--for an enemy who, to their
intense relief, never appeared.