Humble yourselves, my friends, for we stand in a majestic presence.

These are parallels of latitude!" Every heart and every head was bowed, so awful, so sublime was the magnitude of the discovery.

Many shed tears.
The camp was pitched and the rest of the day given up to writing voluminous accounts of the marvel, and correcting astronomical tables to fit it.

Toward midnight a demoniacal shriek was heard, then a clattering and rumbling noise, and the next instant a vast terrific eye shot by, with a long tail attached, and disappeared in the gloom, still uttering triumphant shrieks.
The poor camp laborers were stricken to the heart with fright, and stampeded for the high grass in a body.

But not the scientists.