The astounding truth burst upon me, astounding and important to me though nothing to these ages-old Aryans.
We had been in the exact center of the aurora borealis.
Another milestone for American science!
FOOTNOTES:
[20] William Henry Thomas, cook, valet and foremast-hand who refused to leave the Islands, where he now rules with the title of Filbert the First, under an individual mandate conferred by the Paris Conference. See "Cruise of the Kawa," Chap. 9, p. 133.
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[21] For an interesting account of Eskimo games see the essay by Dr. R. Petersen. "In Lintinwinger i Kippenskabssel-skabet i Christiania," delivered April 3, 1920. W.E.T.
[22] I tried to eat one of these fur-bearing sandwiches in 1898 and nearly died laughing. T.