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91 the journey across your thigh At last! The greatest of all explorations on earth! Our ten intrepid travelers set out across the vast expanse by traversing the narrowest section of the promontory. Confident, cheerful, chatting, they are moving spiritedly, and breathingeasilydespitethefactthattheyareheavilyloadeddownwithjewels, rings, and other token trinkets in case of chance encounters with hostile or greedynatives.Nowtheypassoutof sightoverthedistant,enormoushorizon; andthereissilence,exceptforanoccasionalecstaticcry.Butwhatcanbegoing on now behind those hills? All you can hear all of a sudden is a lot of panting and hoarse and desperate breathing! Then there is a series of outraged gasps; andthenthesoundof struggle!Finallytheleaderof theexpeditionreappears. It’s an eye, crawling in on all fours! “What happened?” we anxiously enquire; but all it can do is choke out a few words of feverish explanation through parchedlips.“Thiseye’sthroatisdry,”someonesays;“—it’sobviouslybecause its canteen of tears has been emptied.” As for the eye itself, it has just fainted. Carefully, swaddled in its eyelid, we carry the exhausted eyeball back to safety, onlytoseeitawakeafewhourslaterinthisapparentterminalwhichevidently it does not yet realize is only the base camp from which an entirely new set of still more perilous expeditions are about to set out. ...

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