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Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery and Other Stories It would be useless to refer to the early and uninteresting part of the Professor's tour. The journey to London was like all others. The sun shone upon him all the day, and he felt like one of those stage performers who walk the stage in a ray of searchlight from the wings. Not that such a poor simile occurred to Dr. Aitken's mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.