All honor to the mystery-dispelling eye of godlike Science!" And near the Double Man-Bird was found what was plainly an ancient record of his, marked upon numberless sheets of a thin white substance and bound together.

Almost the first glance that Professor Woodlouse threw into it revealed this following sentence, which he instantly translated and laid before the scientists, in a tremble, and it uplifted every soul there with exultation and astonishment: "In truth it is believed by many that the lower animals reason and talk together." When the great official report of the expedition appeared, the above sentence bore this comment: "Then there are lower animals than Man! This remarkable passage can mean nothing else.

Man himself is extinct, but they may still exist.

What can they be?
Where do they inhabit?
One's enthusiasm bursts all bounds in the contemplation of the brilliant field of discovery and investigation here thrown open to science.

We close our labors with the humble prayer that your Majesty will immediately appoint a commission and command it to rest not nor spare expense until the search for this hitherto unsuspected race of the creatures of God shall be crowned with success." The expedition then journeyed homeward after its long absence and its faithful endeavors, and was received with a mighty ovation by the whole grateful country.