Journey to the center of the Earth Chapter 8 : A lost world

V.,Te were on the north side of the sea again, but not on
the same beach as before. For this reason, we began to
look around to see what we could find. The professor
didn't want us to stay there for long. He wanted to sail on
the sea again .
"Professor, it's too dangerous! You saw what happened."
"I don't care, Axel. I did not come all th is way to turn back
now. \1Ve've got to see what's on the other side of that sea."
T his beach was longer than the other one. Its rocks
had more holes in them, and I thought this was because
of earthquakes. There were many more bones and old
she.lls on this beach.
"Look at all of this, Axel! We can read the whole history
of the world from these bones."
There were skeletons of animals that are not living
today. It was very exciting to see them out in the open and
not in a museum.
"Axel, look! A human head!"
There, with all the other bones, was the head of a man.
How did it get here? Did it faH clown one of those holes
like we did? Was that going to happen to us? The
professor was excited .
"If other scientists could see me now! This could be the
oldest skeleton ever found!"
We walked further clown and the beach changed. Now,
there were large trees and small plants around us. The
further we went, the more life we found. Suddenly, I saw
something move behind the trees. My uncle and I hid. It
was a family of mammoths from thousands of years ago.
"Axel, can you believe it? There is another world
under our earth!"
"But are there also people here?"
"Yes, look!"
I couldn't believe it. Walking behind the mammoths
was a giant man. He was over twelve feet tall with long
hair and a beard . l-Ie had a piece of animal skin around
his waist.
"Should we try to talk to him?"
"No, he looks dangerous. Hans is not with us, and we
don't have our guns. Let's go back to the boat."
We ran away quietly, so the prehistoric man did not see
us. When we stopped running, we were back at the beach.
I saw an old knife on a rock.
"Let's clean this and keep it. It could be useful."
"Axel, don't you understand what this is?"
"Yes, it's a knife."
"But it's made of metal. It is only two or three hundred
years old."
"Do you mean .. . "
"Yes, Arne Saknussemm!"
The professor saw a cave nearby. He ran to it.
"Axe!, it's him!"
On the rock, next to the eentrence of this cave there were two letters in old iclandic  A.S
he pro fessor loo ked ver y excited.
"This must be the entrance we are looking for."

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