Before them swam beautiful vari-colored fish.
At their feet crept crabs and shell fish of a strange and beautiful variety.
Before them was a mighty building which seemed to have once been a palace or temple.
“Let us explore that,” said Von Bulow, in signs.
The others nodded an acquiescence.
Frank and Barney, armed with axes, led the way into the temple. They passed through a high arched door.
It was a mammoth hall with high pillars of stone which they now stood in.
There was a grandeur about the mammoth structure which reminded one of the Roman temples in Italy.
The hall had evidently been some sort of a public auditorium or council chamber.
At the lower end was a dais of stone, and upon it was a high chair or throne of the same material.