AN HENDERSON, OF THE 'POLAR
KING,' HAVING DESERTED THE SHIP AS SHE WAS ENTERING
PLUTUSIA, HAVE ARRIVED AT SITKA, ALASKA,
IN A DESPERATE CONDITION, AND HAVE
BEEN INTERVIEWED BY A 'WESTERN
HEMISPHERE' COMMISSIONER.

"THEY SAY LEXINGTON WHITE, COMMANDER OF THE 'POLAR
KING,' IS AT PRESENT SAILING UNDERNEATH CANADA
ON AN INTERIOR SEA!

"TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES FOR SCIENCE AND COMMERCE!

"THE FABLED REALMS OF PLUTO NO LONGER A MYTH!

"GOLD! GOLD! BEYOND THE DREAMS OF MADNESS!

"The story of the discovery of Plutusia and the Polar Gulf, as told by
the two shipwrecked survivors of the mutineers of the _Polar King_ now
at Sitka, Alaska, to the _Western Hemisphere_, will form an epoch in
the history of the world. The renown of Columbus and Magellan is
overshadowed by the glory of Lexington White, a citizen of the United
States, who fitted out a ship for polar discovery, and, taking the
command himself, has unravelled the mystery of the North Pole,
discovered the Polar Gulf and the interior world.

"Having penetrated the Polar Gulf about three hundred miles, and
having discovered the interior sun, a fear seized on a number of the
sailors, among whom were Boatswain Dunbar and his companion,
Henderson, who are the only survivors of twelve men who left the
_Polar King_ in an open boat to return home again, and to whose safe
arrival in Sitka the world is indebted for news of the important
discoveries that had been made.

"Dunbar and Henderson arrived in Sitka in a very forlorn condition,
almost starved to death and utterly exhausted with their terrible
journey homeward. They seem to forget largely the incidents of the
journey outward in the _Polar King_, but have a very clear
recollection of their own individual experiences in returning to
civilization again. Dunbar, with his eleven associates and the
Esquimaux dogs, were no sooner cut adrift from the _Polar King_ than
they began to realize their terrible position. Borne on the breast of
the immense tidal wave that vibrated up and down the polar cavern,
they were tossed helplessly to and fro, now flung almost out of its
mouth and again sucked back into its midnight recesses. They floated
for days in the gigantic tunnel of water that threatened to collapse
any moment and overwhelm them. They would fain have returned to the
ship, but the breeze b