Jungles of JupiterField TacticsAlice in Wonderland“Here it is,” he said suddenly. “‘Dry Spots. These are fairly common phenomena in certain parts of the swamplands. Seemingly Nature’s method for preserving the free oxygen balance in the atmosphere, colonies of ultra-microscopic animalcules spring up, spreading apparently from spores carried by animals which blunder into the dry areas.
“‘These animalcules attach themselves to hosts, inanimate or otherwise, and absorb all water vapor or still water nearby, utilizing the hydrogen in some way not yet determined, and liberating free oxygen. They become dormant during the rainy season, apparently unable to cope with running water. They expand only within definite limits, and the life of each colony runs about three weeks, after which it vanishe
