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For another half hour we trod upon a pavement of bones. We pushed on, / impelled by our burning curiosity. What other marvels did this cavern / contain? What new treasures lay here for science to unfold? I was / prepared for any surprise, my imagination was ready for any / astonishment however astounding.
We had long lost sight of the sea shore behind the hills of bones. / The rash Professor, careless of losing his way, hurried me forward. / We advanced in silence, bathed in luminous electric fluid. By some / phenomenon which I am unable to explain, it lighted up all sides of / every object equally. Such was its diffusiveness, there being no / central point from which the light emanated, that shadows no longer / existed. You might have thought yourself under the rays of a vertical / sun in a tropical region at noonday and the height of summer. No / vapour was visible. The rocks, the distant mountains, a few isolated / clumps of forest trees in the distance, presented a weird and / wonderful aspect under these totally new conditions of a universal / diffusion of light. We were like Hoffmann's shadowless man.