A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS It is difficult for me to determine what was the real time, but I should suppose, by after calculation, that it must have been ten at night. I lay in a stupor, a half dream, during which I saw visions of astounding character. Monsters of the deep were side by side with the mighty elephantine shepherd. Gigantic fish and animals seemed to form strange conjunctions. The raft took a sudden turn, whirled round, entered another tunnel--this time illumined in a most singular manner. The