Transcription: When I came to I saw my uncle and Hans looking down on me he lives he lives cried my uncle I Had awoken in a charming grotto adorned with magnificent stalagmites glittering in all the colors of the rainbow The floor was a soft and silvery sand No lamps were needed a bright light penetrated through a narrow opening in the wall of the grotto Then I heard a vague murmur like waves waves breaking on a beach and the whistling of a wind. I thought I must be dreaming, or perhaps we had returned to the surface of the earth. Then I heard my uncle speaking. It is indeed a miracle that you were not kille ...
