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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER XIII
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There are more wonders than the wonders rejected, and more sights unrevealed than you or I ever ever dreamt of.

Moles and bats alone should be skeptics; and the only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Be Sir Thomas Brown our ensample; who, while exploding "Vulgar Errors," heartily hugged all the mysteries in the Pentateuch.
But look! fathoms down in the sea; where ever saw you a phantom like that?
An enormous crescent with antlers like a reindeer, and a Delta of mouths.

Slowly it sinks, and is seen no more.
Doctor Faust saw the devil; but you have seen the "Devil Fish." Look again! Here comes another.

Jarl calls it a Bone Shark.


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