When Super-Apes Plot by Wilder Anthony

WITH Batu leading the way and clearing the path where necessary with his long chopping knife, the four weary fugitives slowly pushed on through the jungle in the direction of the lake. They were following an ancient trail, so narrow that they were forced to walk in single file.

Sometimes, they traveled under great branches which arched high over their heads; sometimes the branches were so low that they must stoop to pass under them; but always they wound in and out between mighty tree trunks with gnarled roots twisting up above the ground, and with a myriad of flowering creepers twining down from their lofty tops.