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

levels, as it were. g.,
l. / closed my eyes and placing my
hand over them, to shut out the weird
land at the same time. grotesque be
fngs and other sights that were dane
ing before my eyes on my coming TO
after the severe bump had received
in my fail, rested some few~minutes,
knowing that when opened them
Iagain the dancing hallucinations would
have cleared away. All this time the
cold was intense and getting more so
l to my benuInbed limbs. E.. =. =.
When ! thought that sufficient time
had elapsed for my brain to clear, and
that would be able TO see ny way
out or al least to some place where
II was not quite so chilly, l removed
my hand an dopened my eyes. There
was that terrible picture again, and
although the light that so blinded me
La few moments before was now some
| what subdued but OF such an unearthly
nature that gasped at beholding It.
Upon becoming a little used to the
sight / seemed to be capable OF look
ling 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, ! beheld several objects
moving about, and the longer 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 eyeball
was pure white. was so startled by
what 7 saw that for the first time
since / landed on the floor on my
| back under the ice / moved my posi-
ton 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 i'm.
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 legs while going in one
direction and If 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 frcm was fascinated as /
watched them doing this. It all seemed
so, weird. On each side of the egg
shaped trunk there WAS a large eye
Iprctruding in the direction of the feet
on that side of the body. This eye
was of immense size and its shape was
lup and down instead Of crosswise, as
are our own, and occupied space on
the SHE of the eggshaped 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 let black. The body was
supplied with two arms and hands
but as near as could see there were
but two fingers and "a short thumb on
each hand A mouth ! could not see,
l.
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
gramophone to the person who depos-
It's a nickel for the purpose of hearing
a selection
When / had gotten nloser To the ice
and Increased the size of the beings
to that extent thar conld see the
eyeballs. / had also decreased the ra-
dius of vision to most remarkable
degree. and where before had hun.
ldreds az those strange heinps in yiou,
there now were b1f few There an.
peared to be no houses in sight hut
| In place there were long. blaek wide
trenches. criss-crossing each other,
and into which these beings wo,ld
disappear frednently giving me- the
| Impression that they lived nnder
ground and probably had their cities
there. - :. = :,
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