humarca

Updated: June 12, 2025

There was no mistake about it; it was a genuine historical document, of the Ziska drum-head pattern, a real cutis humarca, stripped from some old Scandinavian filibuster, and the legend was true. My friend, the Professor, settled an important historical and financial question once by the aid of an exceedingly minute fragment of a similar document.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858