He had just turned his gaze in a southerly direction as the words left his lips.
No wonder he uttered the exclamation.
Leo Malvern was looking upon something besides trees, cane brakes and pools of muddy water now.
About a mile from the tree in which he was perched he plainly saw a stone obelisk, which looked to be in the neighborhood of forty feet high.
Now, Leo knew this could not have grown there; so, locating the exact direction, he began descending the tree to notify his companions of the important discovery he had made.
“Hurrah!” he shouted, when he reached the ground. “I’ve made the greatest discovery yet!”
“What is it?” exclaimed the professor, excitedly.
“There is a stone pillar, or something, about a mile south of us.”
“What!”
“Exactly what I say. Come on; we will go to it.”