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CHAPTER I ON THE ARIZONA HILLS
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I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged1 as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect2 I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
And because of this conviction I have determined3 to write down the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death. I cannot explain the phenomena4; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that befell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave.
I have never told this story, nor shall mortal man see this manuscript until after I have passed over for eternity5. I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried6 by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal7 liar8 when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate9. Possibly the suggestions which I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in this chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries of our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.
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aged
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eternity
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cavalry
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livelihood
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retrieve
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prospecting
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quartz
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vein
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prospector
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antelope
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矮种马,小型马( pony的名词复数 ); £25 25 英镑 | |
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gorge
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warriors
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武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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heroism
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narration
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subconsciously
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tiresome
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cowardice
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whooping
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regiment
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apprehension
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withers
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