原文 (英语)

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. They who chance to have read the "Coming Race" may perhaps remember that I, the adventurous discoverer of the land without a sun, concluded the sketch of my adventures by a brief reference to the malady which, though giving no perceptible notice of its encroachments, might, in the opinion of my medical attendant, prove suddenly fatal. I had brought my little book to this somewhat melancholy close a few years before the date of its publication, and in the meanwhil