and kindness. Whenever you are ready to attempt a return
voyage, I assure you that your boat which is here on exhibition shall
be put in the waters of the river Hiddekel at its mouth, and we will bid
you Jehovah-speed."

Thus terminated our only interview with the High Priest or Ruler of the
continent.

PART FOUR

IN THE UNDER WORLD

WE learned that the males do not marry before they are from seventy-five
to one hundred years old, and that the age at which women enter wedlock
is only a little less, and that both men and women frequently live to
be from six to eight hundred years old, and in some instances much
older.(18)

(18 Josephus says: "God prolonged the life of the patriarchs that
preceded the deluge, both on account of their virtues and to give them
the opportunity of perfecting the sciences of geometry and astronomy,
which they had discovered; which they could not have done if they had
not lived 600 years, because it is only after the lapse of 600 years
that the great year is accomplished."--Flammarion, Astronomical Myths,
Paris p. 26.)

During the following year we visited many villages and towns, prominent
among them being the cities of Nigi, Delfi, Hectea, and my father was
called upon no less than a half-dozen times to go over the maps which
had been made from the rough sketches he had originally given of the
divisions of land and water on the "outside" surface of the earth.

I remember hearing my father remark that the giant race of people in the
land of "The Smoky God" had almost as accurate an idea of the geography
of the "outside" surface of the earth as had the average college
professor in Stockholm.

In our travels we came to a forest of gigantic trees, near the city of
Delfi. Had the Bible said there were trees towering over three hundred
feet in height, and more than thirty feet in diameter, growing in the
Garden of Eden, the Ingersolls, the Tom Paines and Voltaires would
doubtless have pronounced the statement a myth. Yet this is the
description of the California sequoia gigantea; but these California
giants pale into insignificance when compared with the forest Goliaths
found in the "within" continent, where abound mighty trees from eight
hundred to one thousand feet in height, and from one hundred to one
hundred and twenty feet in diameter; countless in numbers and forming
forests extending hundreds of miles back from the sea.

The people are exceedingly musical, and learned to a