... pine and hemlock, and I sat up, peering ahead into the dusky sea of pines.Fresher and fresher came the wind from the sea, in puffs, in mild,sweet breezes, in steady, freshening currents, blowing ... beginning:"Is the mammoth extinct? Is the dingue extinct? Probably. And yet theaborigines of British America maintain the contrary. Probably both themammoth and the dingue are extinct; ... wet and flapping—a man with round, fixed, fishyeyes, and soft, slaty skin.But the horror of the thing were the two gills that swelled and relaxedspasmodically, emitting a rasping, purring...