At first glance Aldous guessed that the cavern had once been the exit of a subterranean stream.

He broods over the thought with the intensity of a narrow and unoccupied mind; and a few nights after, he has eatenbut let us draw a veil before the larder of a savagehis chin is pinned down on his chest, a slight congestion of the brain comes on; and behold he finds himself again at that cavern's mouth, and something ugly does jump out upon him: and the cavern is a haunted spot henceforth to him and to all his tribe.

The mysterious cavern in the Himalayas which is supposed to be the source of the river is the most sacred place on earth.

It is well known that the cavern, woods or depths in which the devil hides himself were these chants or psalms which he himself has composed, and which cannot be understood in their true significance except by those who are accustomed to the peculiar style of their language.