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Title: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Author: James De Mille

Posting Date: March 20, 2009 [EBook #6709]
Release Date: October, 2004
First Posted: January 17, 2003

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

By James De Mille

CONTENTS

I. The Finding of the Copper Cylinder
II. Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean
III. A World of Fire and Desolation
IV. The Sight of Human Beings
V. The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains
VI. The New World
VII. Scientific Theories and Scepticism
VIII. The Cave-Dwellers
IX. The Cavern of the Dead
X. The Sacred Hunt
XI. The Swamp Monster
XII. The Baleful Sacrifice
XIII. The Awful "Mista Kosek"
XIV. I Learn My Doom
XV. The Kohen is Inexorable
XVI. The Kosekin
XVII. Belief and Unbelief
XVIII. A Voyage over the Pole
XIX. The Wonders of the "Amir"
XX. The Dark Maiden Layelah
XXI. The Flying Monster
XXII. Escape
XXIII. The Island of Fire
XXIV. Recapture
XXV. Falling, like Icarus, into the Sea
XXVI. Grimm's Law Again
XXVII. Oxenden Preaches a Sermon
XXVIII. In Prison
XXIX. The Ceremony of Separation
XXX. The Day of Sacrifice
XXXI. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

THE FINDING OF THE COPPER CYLINDER

It occurred as far back as February 15, 1850. It happened on that
day that the yacht Falcon lay becalmed upon the ocean between the
Canaries and the Madeira Islands. This yacht Falcon was the property
of Lord Featherstone, who, being weary of life in England, had taken
a few congenial friends for a winter's cruise in these southern
latitudes. They had visited the Azores, the Canaries, and the Madeira
Islands, and were now on their way to the Mediterranean.

The wind had failed, a deep calm had succeeded, and everywhere, as far
as the eye could reach, the water was smooth and glassy. The yacht
rose and fell at the impulse