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The Three Documents

           "CRUEL!"interruptedJohnMangles."IseenowwhatGRAUSispartofintheseconddocument.ItisGRAUSAM,thewordinGermanforCRUEL!"

           "Let’sgoon,"saidLordGlenarvan,becomingquiteexcitedoverhistask,astheincompletewordsbegantofillupanddeveloptheirmeaning."INDIisitIndiawheretheyhavebeenshipwrecked?AndwhatcanthiswordONGITbepartof?Ah!IseeitisLONGITUDE;andhereisthelatitude,37degrees11".Thatisthepreciseindicationatlast,then!"

           "Butwehaven’tthelongitude,"objectedMcNabbs.

           "Butwecan’tgeteverything,mydearMajor;anditissomethingatallevents,tohavetheexactlatitude.TheFrenchdocumentisdecidedlythemostcompleteofthethree;butitisplainenoughthateachistheliteraltranslationoftheother,fortheyallcontainexactlythesamenumberoflines.Whatwehavetodonowistoputtogetherallthewordswehavefound,andtranslatethemintoonelanguage,andtrytoascertaintheirmostprobableandlogicalsense."

           "Well,whatlanguageshallwechoose?"askedtheMajor.

           "IthinkwehadbetterkeeptotheFrench,sincethatwasthemostcompletedocumentofthethree."

           "YourLordshipisright,"saidJohnMangles,"andbesides,we’reallfamiliarwiththelanguage."

           "Verywell,then,I’llsettowork."

           Inafewminuteshehadwrittenasfollows:

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