Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-05

closed my, eyes and placing my
hand over them, to shut out the weird
lana at! the same time grotesque be-
iings and other sights that were dane.
ing before my eyes on my coming to
latter the severe bump had received
lin my fall, ! rested some few minutes,
knowing that when opened them
'Iagain the dancing Authorizations would
have cleared away. All this time the
Icold was intense and getting more so
to my benumbed limbs. ~ ~
When thought that sufficient time
had elapsed for my brain to clear, and
i that | would be able to see my way
\ out or at least to some place where
1t was not quite so chilly, removed
imy hand an dopened my eyes There
was that terrible picture again, and
ALTHOUGH the light that SO blinded me
a few moments before was now some
what subdued but Of such an unearthly
nature that / gasped at beholding it.
Upon becoming little used to the
sight i seemed to be capable Of look
/ ing beyond the shimmering haze that
at the same time was glow OF a
bewildering nature and could make
Tout what seemed to be background,
and as my eyes grew more accustomed
to the scene that was, so far, amaze
ment itself, i beheld several objects
moving about, and the longer 1 looked
the clearer they appeared. So distinct
did these moving shapes become that
could see what appeared to be the
black OF their eye, for the eyebalf,
was pure white. was so startled by
what saw that for the first time
since landed on thet floor on my
back under the ice i moved my posi-
tion and In raising myself to a sit
ting position brought my face about
two feet nearer to the mass of glass
smooth Ice above me. Instantly the
figures that had appeared as pigmies
before now assumed immense proper
TONS The body Of one described Will
do for all the rest, for they all APP
peared to be the same The trunk of
the body was egg-shaped, being of Inn
mense size as compared with the legs,
which were short and seemed to have
no Joint except at the ankles. Each
body was supplied with four legs, two.
with the feet facing in one direction
and the other two feet facing the OPP
posite direction. Thus equipped they.
never turned around They walked on
one pair Of Rgs while going in one
direction and IL occasion required that
they retrace their steps they simply
threw. their weight on the pair OF
legs that faced in the opposite direc-
ton and walked back to where they
started from. I was fascinated as !
watched them doing this. it all seemed
so weird On each side of the egg
shaped trunk there was large eye
protruding in the direction of the feet
on that side Of the body. This eye
was of immense size and it's shape was
up and down instead of crosswise, as
are cur own, and occupied space on
the side of the egg-shaped body fully
as large as one of their hands The
ball of the eye was pure white while
the part that we know as the white of
the eye was jet black. The body was
supplied with two arms and hands
but as near as / could see there we're
but two fingers and short thumb on
each hand. A mouth could not see,
but where the mouth was supposed
to be On such an uncouth looking
shape there were four long suckers
that much resembled the tubes that
are used to convey the sounds from a
gramcphone to the person who depos- |
its a nickel for the purpose of hearing
a selection.
When had gotten closer, to the ice
and increased the size of the beings
to that extent that / could see the |
eyeballs, had also decreased the ra-
dfus of vision to a most remarkable |
degree, and where ! before had hun
dreos Of these strange beings in view
there now were but few. There ap-
peared to be no houses in sight but |
in place there were long, black, wide |
trenches, criss-crossing each other, |
and into which these beings would |
disappear frequently, giving me the |
impression that they lived under |
ground and probably had their, cities |
there. he.
At one time there appeared to be
a great commotion among the few !
thai were within the radius of my vi |
sion and there, was a scrambling in |
many directions, they all disappear
ing for few minutes. and during that
time there was binding flash of !
light shot across the line of focus. 1t |
seemed 20 be in the form of a sky |
rocket but of gigantic portions.
Dropping back trffie from the |
piece Of ice over my head | at once
increased the radius of my vision,
and very bright object came into
view which might possibly have been
an immense mirror and, according to
the size many thousands of beings
about it must have been almost 10
miles square
At certain intervals hundreds Of !
the beings with the four legs would |
take hold of this gigantic mirror on !
one side and tip it up to an angle of
about Is degrees then replace it on |
the ground. 1t was that move Of the
mirror or whatever it was that they
were tipping that caught the rays of
the sun and shot that big flash of |
light that | saw a few moments be- |
fore.
All this happened in less time than