The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.Smile, R. Elton
Science
The Manatitlans: or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A.
Smile, R. Elton
Science fiction, American
The assemblage, at the conclusion of the narration, enthusiastically
congratulated Buzzee upon the result of his successful perseverance,
saluting him as a public benefactor, with the title of apiamaster. In
the course of a century there was not a family in Manatitla without a
pair or more of the apis isolatas, which became known in common usage as
the bee phaeton. Their introduction as locomotive facilitations
contributed greatly to extended sociability, as they were able to bear
with ease twenty giantescoes, forty mediums, or their equivalents in
tits, and we have evident reason to believe that they instinctively
enjoy their domestication with us better than in a wild state, for in
our pleasure parties they harmonize the voice vibrations of their wings
with our songs. To Buzzee’s inventive skill we are also indebted for the
imperishable combination used in building, and the preparation of our
textile fabrics.
After the discovery of the Heraclean cities, with the increase of our
people’s means of communication, they were visited daily for the purpose
of influencing the citizens to bestow more kindly treatment upon their
aboriginal benefactors. Evoce (quick perception), a giantesco, had
gained the ear of a cruel taskmaster, for the purpose of using his voice
in expostulation, when to his surprise, he distinctly heard vengeful
denunciations without the utterance of words of speech from the mouth of
the brutal auramentee. Satisfied after frequent experimental repetitions
that the enunciations were vocalized impressions heralding audited words
of speech that could be suppressed or spoken, he made known the nature
of his discovery to the Dosch and his advisers. The coincident
impression of their own thought enunciations, confirmed Evoce’s
suggestion that thought enunciation, and also instinctive mental
impressions, were vocalized by an enunciator in proximity with the ear,
and in communication with the combined organs of sense. Upon these
suggestive conclusions was founded an experimental course of
investigation, which resulted, not only in the full verification of
their deductive anticipations, but with the development of the power of
substituting extraneous impressions for adoption by the giga auramentee,
through the modulated induction of the giantesco voice to an accord with
the mood of the subject. Great care was required in the ventriloquial
modulations of the auramentor’s voice for exact correspondence with the
characteristic peculiarities of the auramentee’s; for any remarkable
deviation was sure to alarm their superstitious fears. For the
acquirement of facility in the substitution of ideas and thoughts, it
was necessary to obtain humoristic ease in the detail expression of
idiomatic phrase peculiar to the auramentee’s use of language. With the
naturally good, we were soon able, with the mutual incitement of
novelty, to evoke and cultivate the germ of pity, while with the
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