Chapter Xi. An Affair With The Barbarous Fishers : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 181 CHAPTER XI AN AFFAIR WITH THE BARBAROUS FISHERS SO this mighty Empress chose to be jealous of a mere woman prisoner! Now my mind has been trained to work with a soldierly quickness in these moments of stress, and I decided on my proper...
Chapter Vi. The Biters Of The City Walls : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 95 CHAPTER VI THE BITERS OF THE CITY WALLS HERE then was the manner of my reception back in the capital of Atlantis, and some first glimpse at her new policies. I freely confess to my own inaction and limpness; but it was all deliberate...
Chapter I. My Recall : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 15 THE LOST CONTINENT CHAPTER I MY RECALL THE public official reception was over. The sentence had been read, the name of Phorenice the Empress adored, and the new Viceroy installed with all that vast and ponderous ceremonial which had gained...
Chapter Xix. Destruction Of Atlantis : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 333 CHAPTER XIX DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS A TOTTERING old priest came up and touched me on the shoulder. "Well?" I said, sharply, having small taste for interruption just now. "News has been carried to the Three, my King, of what is threatened."...
Chapter Iv. The Welcome Of Phorenice : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 57 CHAPTER IV THE WELCOME OF PHORENICE NOW I can say it with all truth that, till the rival navy met us in the mouth of the gulf, I had thought little enough of my importance as a recruit for the Empress. But the laying in wait for us of those...
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Chapter Ii. Back To Atlantis : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 31 CHAPTER II BACK TO ATLANTIS THE words of Tatho were no sleeping draught for me that night. I began to think that I had made somewhat a mistake in wrapping myself up so entirely in my government of Yucatan, and not contriving to keep more...
Chapter Xx. On The Bosom Of The Deep : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 349 CHAPTER XX ON THE BOSOM OF THE DEEP THE Ark was rudderless, oarless, and machine-less, and could travel only where the High Gods chose. The inside was dark, and full of an ancient smell, and crowded with groanings and noise. I could not...
Chapter Ix. Phorenice, Goddess : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 146 CHAPTER IX PHORENICE, GODDESS NOW the passage, though its entrance had been cunningly hidden by man's artifice, was one of those veins in which the fiery blood of our mother, the Earth, had aforetime coursed. Long years had passed since it...
Chapter Xiii. The Burying Alive Of Nais : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 223 CHAPTER XIII THE BURYING ALIVE OF NAS THERE is no denying that the wishes of Phorenice were carried into quick effect in the city of Atlantis. Her modern theory was that the country and all therein existed only for the good of the Empress...
Chapter Xv. Zaemon's Summons : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 261 CHAPTER XV ZAEMON'S SUMMONS SINCE the days when man was first created upon the earth by Gods who looked down and did Their work from another place, there have always been areas of the land ill-adapted for his maintenance, but none more so...
Chapter Xvi. Siege Of The Sacred Mountain : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 273 CHAPTER XVI SIEGE OF THE SACRED MOUNTAIN NOW my passage across the great continent of Atlantis, if tedious and haunted by many dangers, need not be recounted in detail here. Only one halt did I make of any duration, and that was unavoidable...
Chapter Xiv. Again The Gods Make Change : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 241 CHAPTER XIV AGAIN THE GODS MAKE CHANGE NOW it would be tedious to tell how, with a handful of highly trained fighting men, I charged and recharged, and finally broke up that horde of rebels which outnumbered us by fifteen times. It must be...
Advertisements : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 354 p. 355 The following advertisements "FROM 1900" appeared in the original book. They are included for completeness.--JBH. BY H. G. WELLS WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, 1 50. "This romance...
Prefatory. The Legatees Of Deucalion : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 1 PREFATORY THE LEGATEES OF DEUCALION WE were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with...
Chapter Vii. The Biters Of The Walls : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 115 CHAPTER VII THE BITERS OF THE WALLS (FURTHER ACCOUNT) "YOU will set me free," she said, regarding me from under her brows, "without any further exactions or treaty?" "I will set you free exactly on those terms," I answered, "unless indeed...
Chapter Xvii. Nais The Regained : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 295 CHAPTER XVII NAS THE REGAINED NOW from where we stood together, just below the crest of the Sacred Mountain, we could see down into the city, which lay spread out below us like a map. The harbor and the great estuary gleamed at its farther...
Illustrations : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], ILLUSTRATIONS "A GREAT MAN-EATING BIRD" "Frontispiece "I DROVE IN THE LANCE AT ITS OOZY EYE'" "Facing p." 42 "TOB WITH HIS BLOODY AYE" " 54 "THE GREAT CAVE-TIGER" " 104 "THE BOUND MAN WAS SHOT AWAY" " 126 "BACK WITH YOU, OUTSIDE THIS CIRCLE" " 162...
Chapter X. A Wooing : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 161 CHAPTER X A WOOING A MURMUR quickly sprang up round me, which grew into shouts. "Kneel," one whispered, "kneel, sir, or you will be seen." And another cried: "Kneel, you without beard, and do obeisance to the only Goddess, or by the old...
Chapter Iii. A Rival Navy : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 45 CHAPTER III A RIVAL NAVY NOW when we came up with the coasts of Atlantis, though Tob, with the aid of his modern instruments, had made his landfall with most marvellous skill and nearness, there still remained some ten days more journey...
Chapter Viii. The Preacher From The Mountains : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 130 CHAPTER VIII THE PREACHER FROM THE MOUNTAINS IT was long enough since I had found leisure for a parcel of sleep, and so during the larger part of that day I am free to confess that I slumbered soundly, Nas watching me. Night fell, and still...
Chapter V. Zaemon's Curse : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 73 CHAPTER V ZAEMON'S CURSE IT appeared that for the present, at any rate, I was to have my residence in the royal pyramid. The glittering cavalcade drew up in the great paved square which lies before the building, and massed itself in groups...
Chapter Xii. The Drug Of Our Lady The Moon : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 201 CHAPTER XII THE DRUG OF OUR LADY THE MOON OUR Lord the Sun was riding towards the end of His day, and the smoke from a burning mountain fanned black and forbidding before His face. Phorenice wrung the water from her clothes and shivered...
Chapter Xviii. Storm Of The Sacred Mountain : * "The Lost Continent", by Cutcliffe Hyne, [1900], p. 314 CHAPTER XVIII STORM OF THE SACRED MOUNTAIN IT was Nas herself who sent me to attend to my sterner duties. The din of the attack came to us in the house where I was tending her, and she asked its meaning. As pithily as might be, for she w...
