The cliff and waterfall: "It was the height of a four-storey building - the kind of height I hate to stand upright near. To gauge the drop I had to crawl to the cliff edge on my belly, afraid that the sense of balance which allows me to stand on a chair would desert me and I would lunge drunkenly forward to my death. "On either side the cliff continued, eventually curving around into the sea, then unbroken, rejoining the land on the far side. It was as if a giant circle had been cut out of the island to enclose the lagoon in a wall of rock - just as Zepth had described. From where we sat, we could see that the sea-locked cliffs were no more than thirty metres thick, but a passing boat could never guess what lay beyond them. They would see a continuous jungle-topped coastline. The lagoon was presumably supplied by underwater caves and channels. "The falls dropped into a pool from which a quick-flowing stream ran into the trees. the highest trees were more than equal to our height. If they'd been a little closer to the precipice we could have used them to get down - and getting down was the big problem. The drop was too sheer and too far to consider climbing." page 82

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