... sphinx-like faces, with the deep dark eyes and red man's col-our; above all, the same type of race race akin to man's, but infinitelystronger of form and grandeur of aspect—and inspiring ... other metallic sheets, on which, in my writ-ing, words first, and then sentences, were inscribed. Under each wordand each sentence strange characters in another hand. Rallying mysenses, I comprehended ... subterranean population, as portion of one great fam-ily race called the Ana.According to the earliest traditions, the remote progenitors of the race had once tenanted a world above the surface of...