At long last he reached the wooded part. There was an undergrowth of feathery vegetation, about the height of gooseberry bushes, coloured like sea anemones. Above this were the taller growths — strange trees with tube — like trunks of grey and purple spreading rich canopies above his head, in which orange, silver, and blue were the predominant colours. Here, with the aid of the tree trunks, he could keep his feet more easily.The smells in the forest were beyond all that he had ever conceived.To say that they made him feel hungry and thirsty would be misleading; almost, they created a new kind
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