In Search of an Unknown Race — page 82: what you’re looking at

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42 VAN. above his head, he seemed to point to the imprint of the seal. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, his bonds were sev- ered. Gentle hands raised his head, and questions in an unknown tongue were uttered in his ear, but all in vain. The deathlike torpor he had first felt began to return—he shivered convulsively—there was a sound as of something like the discharges from a galvanic jar snapping in his head, and then Van Briscoe became mercifully unconscious, eomlclooolks