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Excerpt from The Golden Kangaroo The brace-man's shout, Six hundred! Re called him from his dreaming. 'the bars were let down, and a moment later he was cramped in the dripping cage with a dozen others. The plat man rang up the engine house and in Mediate response the cage abruptly sank. Alan had be come inured to the sensation long ago, but he always found a fresh interest in the lights and shades of the journey into Erebus. The cage bumped and jolted on the runners fearsomely. The sounds of life and work were not. The world seemed utterly cut Off. Presently the cage slackened speed and halted. The side bars were raised, and the men trooped out to stand on solid ground again, six hundred feet below the sunlit surface of the globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.