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Straight toward the north, day and night, our destination compass led us after the fleeing flier upon which it had remained set since I first attuned1 it after leaving the thern fortress2.
Early in the second night we noticed the air becoming perceptibly colder, and from the distance we had come from the equator were assured that we were rapidly approaching the north arctic region.
My knowledge of the efforts that had been made by countless3 expeditions to explore that unknown land bade me to caution, for never had flier returned who had passed to any considerable distance beyond the mighty4 ice-barrier that fringes the southern hem5 of the frigid6 zone.
What became of them none knew—only that they passed forever out of the sight of man into that grim and mysterious country of the pole.
The distance from the barrier to the pole was no more than a swift flier should cover in a few hours, and so it was assumed that some frightful8 catastrophe9 awaited those who reached the "forbidden land," as it had come to be called by the Martians of the outer world.
Thus it was that I went more slowly as we approached the barrier, for it was my intention to move cautiously by day over the ice-pack that I might discover, before I had run into a trap, if there really lay an inhabited country at the north pole, for there only could I imagine a spot where Matai Shang might feel secure from John Carter, Prince of Helium.
We were flying at a snail's pace but a few feet above the ground—literally feeling our way along through the darkness, for both moons had set, and the night was black with the clouds that are to be found only at Mars's two
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v.使协调( attune的过去式和过去分词 );调音 | |
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exclamation
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astonishment
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carrion
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