Lions, although numerous, were exceedingly difficult to bag; there was no chance but the extreme risk of creeping through the thickest jungle.

There are no rules, however, without exceptions, and in some instances the following of the game through the thickest jungle can hardly be avoided.

The city was rumoured to be in an area of Honduras called La Mosquitia, which has some of the thickest jungle in the world.

But where it ran through the thickest jungle that made up the majority of the Juliffe basin, the snowlilies seemed almost as numerous as always.

"It's jungle," he said, "the thickest jungle you've ever seen.