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Updated: May 2, 2025
A parrot and some other birds of the Norfolk Island group are said to have lately become extinct. The wingless auk, Alca impennis, a bird remarkable for its excessive fatness, was very abundant two or three hundred years ago in the Faroe Islands, and on the whole Scandinavian seaboard.
"Have I time to call on the Viscountess Olive?" "It would be mad," said Vulcanmould, handing him a passport and a pair of blue spectacles, and telling him to have courage. "I will," said Chatillon. "Good-bye! old chum." "Good-bye and thanks! You have saved my life." "That is the least I could do." A quarter of an hour later the brave Emiral had left the city of Alca.
As the last wave was emitted from the transmitter, the hand of Superintendent Alca, whom I met at the mines, was laid upon my shoulder. I looked up in surprise. He answered my questioning glance: 'I did not return with Chapman. There was no need of it. A barge going to the City of Light took the body. I explained everything in a letter to the Council. Let us go out and watch the wonder.
I shook convulsively, and covered my face in my hands, stricken through and through with a nameless repining misery of doubt, of apprehension, of dismay. It was the last struggle of readjustment between my memories of earth, my identity as a man on the earth, and this new life I had entered. Alca caught me affectionately and placed the acrid bean I had tasted in the City of Light in my mouth.
"The evil will be endurable as long as these people remain rude and poor; but only wait for a thousand years and you will see, father, with what powerful weapons you have endowed the daughters of Alca. If you will allow me, I can give you some idea of it beforehand. I have some old clothes in this chest.
The villa had belonged to the mistress of one of the last Kings of Alca: the drawing-room retained its old furniture, and in it was still to be found the Sofa of the Favourite. The country was charming; a pretty blue stream, the Aiselle, flowed at the foot of the hill that dominated the villa.
And old Mael remained deep in thought and kept asking himself in grief: "Who will deliver us from the dragon's tooth? Who will preserve us from his breath? Who will save us from his look?" However, the inhabitants of Alca began to take courage.
His ardent royalism was still further excited by the thought of his private affairs, which were in a bad way and were hourly growing worse. He had no hope of seeing an end to his pecuniary embarrassments until the heir of Draco the Great entered the city of Alca.
Although children died in marvellous abundance and plagues and famines came with perfect regularity to devastate entire villages, new Penguins, in continually greater numbers, contributed by their private misery to the public prosperity. During these times there lived in the island of Alca a Penguin whose arm was strong and whose mind was subtle.
Not only did he not allow his kingdom to decline from its hereditary glory, but, even in his reverses he valiantly supported the honour of the Penguin people. Draco the Great caused the relics of St. Orberosia to be transferred to Alca. The body of the blessed saint had been buried in a grotto on the Coast of Shadows at the end of a scented heath.
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