As will appear soon the "experiment of Dr. Nikola" want, I give you a brief insight into the nature of the experiments with which employs the obsessed scientist. His laboratory is in the first volume, A Bid for Fortune , so our "Revenge of Doctor Nikola described. This is a good opportunity again in a different, more precisely, hineinzuschmökern the first translation of this novel: The man with the black cat .
It comes from Carl Perlsee and 1902 published in the weekly magazine "Wiener pictures". I have found to Carl Perlsee no information, I suppose it is a pseudonym.
refers to his description of the laboratory is a rather cute illustration, and it sounds then, beautiful old-fashioned and yet very blatant way:
stood on the walls at regular intervals over a dozen giant bottles, one of which each one human abortion in alcohol contained. In between were smaller bottles if possible, even with horrible content, but which I could not see in speed. On low pedestals were skeletons set by humans, monkeys and maybe a hundred different animals in all possible positions. The gaps were filled with skulls and bones, and hung about all the possible murder weapons. There were European rifles, revolvers, bayonets and swords, Italian stilettos, Turkish dagger, Greek meter, African spears and poisoned arrows, Zuluknüttel, Afghan Yatagan, the crisis of Mulag, the blower tube of Sumatra, the Chinese knife, the neck vessels of New Guinea, Australian spears and boomerangs, axes Polynesian and countless other weapons whose name I had never met. In addition, there were still a lot about cameras, from their purpose, I had no idea.
At the center of the wall opposite us was a fireplace, the fireplace is a bit of an old English country house looked like. On each side there was an individual. One of them was apparently a native of northern India, according to the appearance and clothing to close. He sat slumped on the ground and when his head was three times as great as he was supposed to be, he had prevented an iron hoop around the forehead, which was mounted with a chain to the wall and then the falling forward. Here, the hideous head was completely bald. The skin was stretched over the bones and veins were as thick as macaroni noodles over it.
On the other side sat a man-ape. I erinnnere to have even seen in a panopticon in Sydney, a similar individual, I think he was called in the catalog as a Burmese man-ape. He was equally tied to the wall, as we had been.
But these things were so horrible, the biggest surprise was yet to us. On a table in the middle of the room stood a man I knew only too well. It was Dr. Nikola.
When we entered, he was busy trying to dissect an animal that looked like a monkey. On the same table was his constant companion, the black cat, and watched him. While at the end of the table, We were the first, an albino dwarf standing on tiptoe to see better. He measured just over two feet eight inches.
(Incidentally, I find here my own translation, "The Revenge of Doctor Nikola," accurate. This Boothby speaks not of human freaks but by human specimen . In addition, suppresses the translation of all kinds of magic equipment, from old-fashioned English love charms to African Obi sticks, from spiritualistic planchettes to the most horrible death of Fijian potions. And an iron tripod with a ring or collar at the top of it to keep it from over balancing him and bringing him to the floor is not necessarily a iron ring around his forehead, but an iron three-frame with a neck support at the upper end .)
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