heaving vastness of unbroken blue.
The change happened
whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my
slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous. CHICAS POLICIAS XXX when at last I
awakened,
it was to discover myself half sucked into a slimy expanse of CHICAS POLICIAS XXX hellish
black mire which extended about me in monotonous undulations as far as I could
see, and in which my boat lay CHICAS POLICIAS XXX grounded some distance away.
Though one might well imagine that my first sensation would be of wonder at so
prodigious and CHICAS POLICIAS XXX unexpected a transformation of scenery, I was in reality more
horrified than astonished; for there was in the CHICAS POLICIAS XXX air and in the CHICAS POLICIAS XXX rotting soil a
sinister quality which chilled me to the very core. The region was CHICAS POLICIAS XXX putrid with
the carcasses of decaying fish, and of CHICAS POLICIAS XXX other less describable things which I saw
protruding from CHICAS POLICIAS XXX the CHICAS POLICIAS XXX nasty mud of the unending CHICAS POLICIAS XXX plain. Perhaps I should not hope
to convey in mere words the unutterable CHICAS POLICIAS XXX hideousness that can dwell in absolute
silence and barren immensity. There was nothing within hearing, and nothing in
sight save a vast reach
of black slime; yet the very completeness of the
stillness CHICAS POLICIAS XXX and CHICAS POLICIAS XXX the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating
fear.
The sun was blazing down from a sky which CHICAS POLICIAS XXX seemed to me almost black
in its
cloudless cruelty; as though reflecting the inky marsh beneath my feet. As I
crawled into the stranded boat I realised that only one theory could explain my
position. Through some unprecedented volcanic upheaval, a CHICAS POLICIAS XXX portion of the ocean
floor must have been thrown to the surface, exposing regions which for
innumerable CHICAS POLICIAS XXX millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths.
So great was the extent of the new land which had risen beneath me, that I could
not detect the faintest noise CHICAS POLICIAS XXX of the surging ocean, strain my ears as I might.
Nor were there any sea-fowl to prey upon the dead CHICAS POLICIAS XXX things.
For several hours I sat thinking or brooding in the boat, which lay upon its