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That
address
will
not
be
given
in
extenso
in
these
columns
,
for
the
reason
that
a
full
account
of
the
whole
adventures
of
the
expedition
is
being
published
as
a
supplement
from
the
pen
of
our
own
special
correspondent
.
Some
general
indications
will
therefore
suffice
.
Having
described
the
genesis
of
their
journey
,
and
paid
a
handsome
tribute
to
his
friend
Professor
Challenger
,
coupled
with
an
apology
for
the
incredulity
with
which
his
assertions
,
now
fully
vindicated
,
had
been
received
,
he
gave
the
actual
course
of
their
journey
,
carefully
withholding
such
information
as
would
aid
the
public
in
any
attempt
to
locate
this
remarkable
plateau
.
Having
described
,
in
general
terms
,
their
course
from
the
main
river
up
to
the
time
that
they
actually
reached
the
base
of
the
cliffs
,
he
enthralled
his
hearers
by
his
account
of
the
difficulties
encountered
by
the
expedition
in
their
repeated
attempts
to
mount
them
,
and
finally
described
how
they
succeeded
in
their
desperate
endeavors
,
which
cost
the
lives
of
their
two
devoted
half-breed
servants
.
"
(
This
amazing
reading
of
the
affair
was
the
result
of
Summerlee
's
endeavors
to
avoid
raising
any
questionable
matter
at
the
meeting
.
)
"
Having
conducted
his
audience
in
fancy
to
the
summit
,
and
marooned
them
there
by
reason
of
the
fall
of
their
bridge
,
the
Professor
proceeded
to
describe
both
the
horrors
and
the
attractions
of
that
remarkable
land
.
Of
personal
adventures
he
said
little
,
but
laid
stress
upon
the
rich
harvest
reaped
by
Science
in
the
observations
of
the
wonderful
beast
,
bird
,
insect
,
and
plant
life
of
the
plateau
.
Peculiarly
rich
in
the
coleoptera
and
in
the
lepidoptera
,
forty-six
new
species
of
the
one
and
ninety-four
of
the
other
had
been
secured
in
the
course
of
a
few
weeks
.
It
was
,
however
,
in
the
larger
animals
,
and
especially
in
the
larger
animals
supposed
to
have
been
long
extinct
,
that
the
interest
of
the
public
was
naturally
centered
.
Of
these
he
was
able
to
give
a
goodly
list
,
but
had
little
doubt
that
it
would
be
largely
extended
when
the
place
had
been
more
thoroughly
investigated
.
He
and
his
companions
had
seen
at
least
a
dozen
creatures
,
most
of
them
at
a
distance
,
which
corresponded
with
nothing
at
present
known
to
Science
.
These
would
in
time
be
duly
classified
and
examined
.
He
instanced
a
snake
,
the
cast
skin
of
which
,
deep
purple
in
color
,
was
fifty-one
feet
in
length
,
and
mentioned
a
white
creature
,
supposed
to
be
mammalian
,
which
gave
forth
well-marked
phosphorescence
in
the
darkness
;
also
a
large
black
moth
,
the
bite
of
which
was
supposed
by
the
Indians
to
be
highly
poisonous
.
Setting
aside
these
entirely
new
forms
of
life
,
the
plateau
was
very
rich
in
known
prehistoric
forms
,
dating
back
in
some
cases
to
early
Jurassic
times
.
Among
these
he
mentioned
the
gigantic
and
grotesque
stegosaurus
,
seen
once
by
Mr.
Malone
at
a
drinking-place
by
the
lake
,
and
drawn
in
the
sketch-book
of
that
adventurous
American
who
had
first
penetrated
this
unknown
world
.
He
described
also
the
iguanodon
and
the
pterodactyl
--
two
of
the
first
of
the
wonders
which
they
had
encountered
.
He
then
thrilled
the
assembly
by
some
account
of
the
terrible
carnivorous
dinosaurs
,
which
had
on
more
than
one
occasion
pursued
members
of
the
party
,
and
which
were
the
most
formidable
of
all
the
creatures
which
they
had
encountered
.
Thence
he
passed
to
the
huge
and
ferocious
bird
,
the
phororachus
,
and
to
the
great
elk
which
still
roams
upon
this
upland
.
It
was
not
,
however
,
until
he
sketched
the
mysteries
of
the
central
lake
that
the
full
interest
and
enthusiasm
of
the
audience
were
aroused
.
One
had
to
pinch
oneself
to
be
sure
that
one
was
awake
as
one
heard
this
sane
and
practical
Professor
in
cold
measured
tones
describing
the
monstrous
three-eyed
fish-lizards
and
the
huge
water-snakes
which
inhabit
this
enchanted
sheet
of
water
.
Next
he
touched
upon
the
Indians
,
and
upon
the
extraordinary
colony
of
anthropoid
apes
,
which
might
be
looked
upon
as
an
advance
upon
the
pithecanthropus
of
Java
,
and
as
coming
therefore
nearer
than
any
known
form
to
that
hypothetical
creation
,
the
missing
link
.
Finally
he
described
,
amongst
some
merriment
,
the
ingenious
but
highly
dangerous
aeronautic
invention
of
Professor
Challenger
,
and
wound
up
a
most
memorable
address
by
an
account
of
the
methods
by
which
the
committee
did
at
last
find
their
way
back
to
civilization
.
"
It
had
been
hoped
that
the
proceedings
would
end
there
,
and
that
a
vote
of
thanks
and
congratulation
,
moved
by
Professor
Sergius
,
of
Upsala
University
,
would
be
duly
seconded
and
carried
;
but
it
was
soon
evident
that
the
course
of
events
was
not
destined
to
flow
so
smoothly
.
Symptoms
of
opposition
had
been
evident
from
time
to
time
during
the
evening
,
and
now
Dr.
James
Illingworth
,
of
Edinburgh
,
rose
in
the
center
of
the
hall
.
Dr.
Illingworth
asked
whether
an
amendment
should
not
be
taken
before
a
resolution
.
"
THE
CHAIRMAN
:
'
Yes
,
sir
,
if
there
must
be
an
amendment
.
'
"
DR.
ILLINGWORTH
:
'
Your
Grace
,
there
must
be
an
amendment
.
'
"
THE
CHAIRMAN
:
'
Then
let
us
take
it
at
once
.
'
"
PROFESSOR
SUMMERLEE
(
springing
to
his
feet
)
:
'
Might
I
explain
,
your
Grace
,
that
this
man
is
my
personal
enemy
ever
since
our
controversy
in
the
Quarterly
Journal
of
Science
as
to
the
true
nature
of
Bathybius
?
'
"
THE
CHAIRMAN
:
'
I
fear
I
can
not
go
into
personal
matters
.
Proceed
.
'
