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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
95
On
approaching
the
dwelling
of
the
Best
Man,
I
was
charmed
to
find
that
it
differed
in
no
respect
from
the
ordinary
dwellings
of
the
people,
except
that
it
was
of
greater
extent,
owing
to
his
numerous
family,
and
a
superior
neatness
and
regularity
was
apparent
in
the
grounds,
which
were
stocked
with
a
variety
of
the
most
beautiful
and
fragrant
flowers
and
shrubbery.
The
house
was
literally
in
a
bower
of
sweets.
The
Best
Man
put
me
entirely
at
my
ease
in
point
of
etiquette,
by
meeting
me
in
the
open
air,
in
the
garden,
and
without
either
the
stiffness
of
affected
pomp,
or
the
austere
visage
of
assumed
sanctity.
He
received
me
with
that
frank,
affectionate
manner,
which
constitutes
true
politeness,
the
offspring
of
benevolence.
By
the
aid
of
Surui,
we
entered
immediately
into
conversation.
The
first
inquiries
of
the
Best
Man
were,
as
to
whence
I
came,
and
my
motives
for
leaving
my
country.
By
means
of
a
globe,
which
I
had
brought
from
the
ship,
and
which
I
now
caused
to
be
produced,
I
explained
to
him
the
situation
of
my
country,
and
the
phenomena
attending
the
external
region,
of
which,
till
now,
he
had
no
conception,
except
from
some
supposed
ravings
of
a
Wise
man,
who
was
thought
to
be
mad.
The
frightful
glare
of
the
sun,
and
the
great
extremes
of
heat,
as
his
imagination
pictured
them
in
such
an
external
region,
were
horrible
to
his
apprehension.
My
motive
I
stated
to
be,
a
desire
to
gain
a
more
extended
knowledge
of
the
works
of
nature;
adding,
that
I
had
undertaken
this
perilous
voyage
only
to
ascertain
whether
the
body
of
this
huge
globe
were
an
useless
waste
of
sand
and
stones,
contrary
to
the
economy
usually
displayed
in
the
works
of
Providence,
or,
according
to
the
sublime
conceptions
of
one
of
our
Wise
men,
a
series
of
concentric
spheres,
like
a
nest
of
boxes,
inhabitable
within
and
without,
on
every
side,
so
as
to
accommodate
the
greatest
possible
number
of
intelligent
beings.
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