You make a mad rush for the swamp and jump.

SPLOT.

It is like a pool of watered-down mud but this swamp is green.

You struggle to get on to the bank because the bees are gone but suddenly some thing in the swamp grabs your leg and starts pulling you.

This is a SWAMP-SNAKE. He is trying to pull you under.
You remember you have a sword. SNAP. You chop it.

You are in the middle of the swamp.