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Let
me
give
you
,
with
as
much
detail
as
I
can
,
the
sequence
of
events
which
have
led
us
to
this
catastrophe
.
When
I
finished
my
last
letter
I
stated
that
we
were
within
seven
miles
from
an
enormous
line
of
ruddy
cliffs
,
which
encircled
,
beyond
all
doubt
,
the
plateau
of
which
Professor
Challenger
spoke
.
Their
height
,
as
we
approached
them
,
seemed
to
me
in
some
places
to
be
greater
than
he
had
stated
--
running
up
in
parts
to
at
least
a
thousand
feet
--
and
they
were
curiously
striated
,
in
a
manner
which
is
,
I
believe
,
characteristic
of
basaltic
upheavals
.
Something
of
the
sort
is
to
be
seen
in
Salisbury
Crags
at
Edinburgh
.
The
summit
showed
every
sign
of
a
luxuriant
vegetation
,
with
bushes
near
the
edge
,
and
farther
back
many
high
trees
.
There
was
no
indication
of
any
life
that
we
could
see
.
That
night
we
pitched
our
camp
immediately
under
the
cliff
--
a
most
wild
and
desolate
spot
.
The
crags
above
us
were
not
merely
perpendicular
,
but
curved
outwards
at
the
top
,
so
that
ascent
was
out
of
the
question
.
Close
to
us
was
the
high
thin
pinnacle
of
rock
which
I
believe
I
mentioned
earlier
in
this
narrative
.
It
is
like
a
broad
red
church
spire
,
the
top
of
it
being
level
with
the
plateau
,
but
a
great
chasm
gaping
between
.
On
the
summit
of
it
there
grew
one
high
tree
.
Both
pinnacle
and
cliff
were
comparatively
low
--
some
five
or
six
hundred
feet
,
I
should
think
.
"
It
was
on
that
,
"
said
Professor
Challenger
,
pointing
to
this
tree
,
"
that
the
pterodactyl
was
perched
.
I
climbed
half-way
up
the
rock
before
I
shot
him
.
I
am
inclined
to
think
that
a
good
mountaineer
like
myself
could
ascend
the
rock
to
the
top
,
though
he
would
,
of
course
,
be
no
nearer
to
the
plateau
when
he
had
done
so
.
"
As
Challenger
spoke
of
his
pterodactyl
I
glanced
at
Professor
Summerlee
,
and
for
the
first
time
I
seemed
to
see
some
signs
of
a
dawning
credulity
and
repentance
.
There
was
no
sneer
upon
his
thin
lips
,
but
,
on
the
contrary
,
a
gray
,
drawn
look
of
excitement
and
amazement
.
Challenger
saw
it
,
too
,
and
reveled
in
the
first
taste
of
victory
.
"
Of
course
,
"
said
he
,
with
his
clumsy
and
ponderous
sarcasm
,
"
Professor
Summerlee
will
understand
that
when
I
speak
of
a
pterodactyl
I
mean
a
stork
--
only
it
is
the
kind
of
stork
which
has
no
feathers
,
a
leathery
skin
,
membranous
wings
,
and
teeth
in
its
jaws
.
"
He
grinned
and
blinked
and
bowed
until
his
colleague
turned
and
walked
away
.
In
the
morning
,
after
a
frugal
breakfast
of
coffee
and
manioc
--
we
had
to
be
economical
of
our
stores
--
we
held
a
council
of
war
as
to
the
best
method
of
ascending
to
the
plateau
above
us
.
Challenger
presided
with
a
solemnity
as
if
he
were
the
Lord
Chief
Justice
on
the
Bench
.
Picture
him
seated
upon
a
rock
,
his
absurd
boyish
straw
hat
tilted
on
the
back
of
his
head
,
his
supercilious
eyes
dominating
us
from
under
his
drooping
lids
,
his
great
black
beard
wagging
as
he
slowly
defined
our
present
situation
and
our
future
movements
.
Beneath
him
you
might
have
seen
the
three
of
us
--
myself
,
sunburnt
,
young
,
and
vigorous
after
our
open-air
tramp
;
Summerlee
,
solemn
but
still
critical
,
behind
his
eternal
pipe
;
Lord
John
,
as
keen
as
a
razor-edge
,
with
his
supple
,
alert
figure
leaning
upon
his
rifle
,
and
his
eager
eyes
fixed
eagerly
upon
the
speaker
.
