Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Part 1
THE GIANT RAFT
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon – A CAPTAIN OF THE WOODS – THE MAN who held in his hand the document of which this strange assemblage of letters formed the concluding paragraph remained for some moments lost in thought.
It contained about a hundred of these lines, with the letters at even distances, and undivided into words. It seemed to have been written many years before, and time had already laid his tawny finger on the sheet of good stout paper which was covered with the hieroglyphics.
On what principle had these letters been arranged? He who held the paper was alone able to tell. With such cipher language it is as with the locks of some of our iron Safeskin either case the protection is the same.
