CONTENTS.

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I. —[A Polar Catastrophe,][13]
II. —[The Cause of the Expedition,][19]
III. —[Beginning the Voyage,][22]
IV. —[Our Adventures in the Polar Sea,][26]
V. —[We Enter the Polar Gulf,][31]
VI. —[Day Becomes Night and Night Day,][34]
VII. —[We Discover the Interior World,][40]
VIII. —[Extraordinary Loss of Weight,][45]
IX. —[Afloat on the Interior Ocean,][50]
X. —[A Visit from the Inhabitants of Plutusia,][52]
XI. —[We Learn Atvatabarese,][57]
XII. —[We Arrive at Kioram,][61]
XIII. —[Marching in Triumph,][65]
XIV. —[The Journey to Calnogor,][72]
XV. —[Our Reception by the King,][78]
XVI. —[The King Unfolds the Grandeur of Atvatabar,][83]
XVII. —[Gnaphisthasia,][86]
XVIII. —[The Journey to the Bormidophia,][94]
XIX. —[The Throne of the Gods, Calnogor,][99]
XX. —[The Worship of Lyone, Supreme Goddess,][103]
XXI. —[An Audience with the Supreme Goddess,][109]
XXII. —[The Goddess Learns the Story of the Outer World,][114]
XXIII. —[The Garden of Tanje,][117]
XXIV. —[The Journey to Egyplosis,][128]
XXV. —[Escaping from the Cyclone,][133]
XXVI. —[The Banquet on the Aerial Ship,][139]
XXVII. —[We Reach Egyplosis,][144]
XXVIII. —[The Grand Temple of Harikar,][149]
XXIX. —[The Installation of a Twin-Soul,][153]
XXX. —[The Installation of a Twin-Soul (Continued)][159]
XXXI. —[The Mystery of Egyplosis,][163]
XXXII. —[The Sin of a Twin-Soul,][168]
XXXIII. —[The Doctor's Opinion of Egyplosis,][172]
XXXIV. —[Lyone's Confession,][176]
XXXV. —[Our Visit to the Infernal Palace,][183]
XXXVI. —[Arjeels,][194]
XXXVII. —[A Revelation,][202]
XXXVIII. —[Lyone's Manifesto to King and People,][206]
XXXIX. —[The Crisis in Atvatabar,][212]
XL. —[My Departure from the Palace of Tanje,][216]
XLI. —[We Are Attacked by the Enemy,][220]
XLII. —[The Battle Continued,][225]
XLIII. —[Victory,][229]
XLIV. —[The News of Atvatabar in the Outer World,][235]
XLV. —[The Voyages of the Mercury and the Aurora Borealis,][244]
XLVI. —[The Arrest of Lyone,][249]
XLVII. —[The Council of War in Kioram,][253]
XLVIII. —[The Report of Astronomer Starbottle,][258]
XLIX. —[Preparation for War,][264]
L. —[I Visit Lyone in Calnogor,][267]
LI. —[The Death of Lyone,][271]
LII. —[The Battle of Calnogor,][279]
LIII. —[Victory,][283]
LIV. —[Reincarnation,][288]
LV. —[Lexington and Lyone Hailed King and Queen of Atvatabar,][292]
LVI. —[Our Reception in Calnogor,][298]
LVII. —[The Combined Ceremony of Marriage and Coronation,][304]
LVIII. —[The Death of Bhoolmakar,][310]
LIX. —[The History Concluded,][315]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Map of the interior world,[Frontispiece].
I signalled the engineer full speed ahead, and in a short time
we crossed the ice-foot and entered the chasm,		C. Durand Chapman,[17]
A semi-circle of rifles was discharged at the unhappy brutes.
Two of them, fell dead in their tracks,		"[29]
The terror inspired by the professor's words was plainly
visible on every face,		"[35]
At this moment a wild cry arose from the sailors. With one voice
they shouted, "The sun! The sun!"		"[41]
One of the flying men caught Flathootly by the hair of the head,
and lifted him out of the water,		R. W. Rattray,[55]
One of the mounted police got hold of the switch on the back
of the bockhockid, and brought it to a standstill,		Carl Gutherz,[69]
The sacred locomotive stormed the mountain heights with its
audacious tread,		C. Durand Chapman,[75]
The king embraced me, and I kissed the hand of her majesty,"[81]
A procession of priests and priestesses passed down the living aisles,
bearing trophies of art,		Harold Haven Brown,[87]
On the throne sat the Supreme Goddess Lyone, the representative of
Harikar, the Holy Soul,		C. Durand Chapman,[97]
The throne of the gods was indeed the golden heart of Atvatabar,
the triune symbol of body, mind, and spirit,		"[101]
Her holiness offered both his majesty the king and myself her hand
to kiss,		"[111]
Zoophytes of Atvatabar,Paul de Longpré
The Lilasure,[117]
The Laburnul,[118]
The Green Gazzle of Glockett Gozzle,[119]
Jeerloons,[120]
A Jeerloon,[120]
The Lillipoutum,[121]
The Jugdul,[122]
The Yarphappy,[123]
The Jalloast,[124]
The Gasternowl,[125]
The Crocosus,[126]
The Jardil, or Love-pouch,[127]
The Blocus,[128]
The Funny-fenny, or Clowngrass,[129]
The Gleroseral,[130]
The Eaglon,[131]
The goddess stood holding on to the outer rail of the deck,
the incarnation of courage,		C. Durand Chapman,[135]
Then the ship rose again toward the mammoth rocks, adorned
with the tapestries of falling wave,		"[141]
Lyone was borne on a litter from the aerial ship to the palace,"[147]
The priest and priestess stood beside the altar, each reading an
alternate stanza from the ritual of the goddess,		R. W. Rattray,[155]
Her kiss was a blinding whirlwind of flame and tears,C. Durand Chapman,[181]
The labyrinth was a subterranean garden, whose trees and
flowers were chiselled out of the living rock,		Paul de Longpré,[187]
As i gazed, lo! a shower of blazing jewels issued from the mouth
of the hehorrent,		Leonard M. Davis,[191]
"By virtue of the spirit power in this cable," said the sorcerer,
"I will that the magical Island of Arjeels shall rise above
the waves,"		C. Durand Chapman,[197]
The ship in company with a vast volume of water sprang into the
air to a great height,		"[223]
We slowly dragged ourselves across the range of icy peaks,"[241]
I mounted the trunk and proposed the health of Her Majesty Lyone,
Queen of Atvatabar,		R. W. Rattray,[261]
Lyone reached for a flower, and in doing so touched the vase, and
immediately fell dead upon the floor,		C. Durand Chapman,[273]
At this juncture a shell of terrorite exploded among the foe with
thrilling effect, destroying at least two hundred bockhockids,		Walter M. Dunk,[285]
Heavens and earth! He was holding Lyone in his arms, alive from
the living battery! Lyone, the peerless soul of souls, alive once
more and triumphant over death,		C. Durand Chapman,[293]
We sat thus crowned amid the tremendous excitement. The people
shouted, "Life, health and prosperity to our sovereign lord and
lady, Lexington and Lyone, King and Queen of Atvatabar,"		Allan B. Doggett,[307]
Oi made Bhooly an' Koshnili kneel down, an' a sojer tied their
hands behind their backs. Then Oi ordhered a wayleal to behead
thim wid their own swords,		Allan B. Doggett,[313]