... The inside of the palace was entangled in cobwebs to such an extent that it seemed that in order for this to happen, spiders from all over the world known to me had to crawl here. However, it was enough to bring an open fire to these whitish and at the same time shiny threads due to the many small droplets reflected in the light of my torch, when an instantaneous flash of flame immediately destroyed all these nets in an instant, not sparing the spiders themselves. Burnt and crumbling down, they covered the entire surface of the floor with a thick carpet, and in the center of the hall, on a high pedestal that opened to my eyes, stood an amazingly beautiful chest, covered with dust and the remains of fallen arthropods...