Here is the exact facsimile. I think it important to let these strange signs be publicly known, for they were the means of drawing on Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew to undertake the most wonderful expedition of the nineteenth century.
[AFBEELDING] Ik stel er prijs op om die zonderlinge teekens te doen kennen, want door hen werden professor Lidenbrock en zijn neef aangezet om den vreemdsten tocht der negentiende eeuw te ondernemen.