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Editor’s Note on the Illustrations
Originally we had meant to illustrate this book with real photographs—Dr. McGillivray took several good cameras to Mars with him. He, Mr. MacFarlane, and the children, all used a lot of film in snapping the Martians, their houses, cities, landscapes, and so on. But there must have been something in the chemical composition of the rarefied air on Mars that was deleterious to the emulsion on the negatives, for when the photographs were developed on earth after the journey, we found that they were either completely blank or so misty that any reproduction of them was out of the question. However, Mr. Robin Jacques, the artist who has done all the drawings in this book, worked most carefully from descriptions supplied by the Albatross travelers. And they all agree that his pictures are true representations of what they saw during their fantastic adventures in the strange, romantic and terrible places they visited so many millions of miles away.
J.K.C.
Living creatures—individuals—Martians!
A floating game near the ceiling
What we saw was awe-inspiring and strange
Mike was swung up into the air, kicking and shouting furiously
I was free—absolutely alone under the blue sky
A huge white shape—a monstrous swaying toadstool
Enormous tremors shook the earth
We landed the Albatross in Northern France