| rdfs:comment | - So, I took the great burden of finding out where we were onto my own shoulders, and began asking around. Since I could find no good, Christian speakers of the Queen's English, I had to settle for a dark-skinned young lad with a strange accent and an oddly-shaped head who smelled funny and had weird hair and didn't dress right and didn't eat right and had bad manners and smelled. He called himself "Daniel Smith"--I think. It's so difficult to spell these strange aboriginal names. Young Daniel called this place "The Philippines," another strange name the natives used. I, however, needed to know the area's real name.
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| abstract | - So, I took the great burden of finding out where we were onto my own shoulders, and began asking around. Since I could find no good, Christian speakers of the Queen's English, I had to settle for a dark-skinned young lad with a strange accent and an oddly-shaped head who smelled funny and had weird hair and didn't dress right and didn't eat right and had bad manners and smelled. He called himself "Daniel Smith"--I think. It's so difficult to spell these strange aboriginal names. Young Daniel called this place "The Philippines," another strange name the natives used. I, however, needed to know the area's real name. I was perplexed, for a time--until I saw the penguin, that is. I was walking through the dense jungle to find a good tree to wee on when I noticed it, perched on a leafy branch, 20 feet above my head. The penguin, clearly distinguishable as such by its black and white plumage, looked at me inquisitively for just a moment, then flew off. Because of the presence of these birds, I knew that we were in fact in Antarctica. I can tell you one thing first hand, dear reader: It is significantly warmer here than it is usually portrayed.
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