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It could be but an abnormal monstrous existence, that sprang, toadstool-like, from the blood-marsh of cruelty a life neither spiritual nor fleshey, but devilish.
Some were almost microscopic, collected on the bark of the decaying wood; others were of gigantic proportions, equal in circumference to the trunks of the enormous trees amid which they grew. No vegetables except moss and toadstool-like productions could exist in that airless and pestiferous region.
Like so many bombs the brilliantly colored caps of the huge toadstool-like things alluded to by the Chinaman exploded, as the white ray sought them out in the darkness which alone preserved their existence. A brownish cloud I could not determine whether liquid or powdery arose in the cellar.
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