I was hot and frightfully heady, quite apartfrom the blue funk I was in. We'd never reckoned with these beastlynatives, filthy Papuan beasts. It wasn't any good coming up where I was,but I had to do something. On the spur of the moment, I clambered over theside of the brig and landed among the weeds, and set off through thedarkness as fast as I could.
Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me. Very gently,now, I slowed the mechanism down.'I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me. I... read more
