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of some vegetable substance, smooth as paper, and covered with writing.
“It looks like Egyptian papyrus,” said the doctor. “That was the common paper of antiquity.”
A story of strange adventure and stranger discovery in the regions of the Antarctic. What is best in the book can hardly be considered original; its fantastic unreality is all its own.
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