"W. G. Emerson - The Smoky God" - читать интересную книгу автора (Emerson Willis George)

BY

WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON
AUTHOR OF "BUELL HAMPTON," "THE BUILDERS," ETC.

Copyright, 1908,
By WILLIS GEORGE EMERSON


Dedicated
TO
MY CHUM AND COMPANION
BONNIE EMERSON
MY WIFE



CONTENTS

PART I. AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
PART II. OLAF JANSEN'S STORY
PART III. BEYOND THE NORTH WIND
PART IV. IN THE UNDER WORLD
PART V. AMONG THE ICE PACKS
PART VI. CONCLUSION
PART VII. AUTHOR'S AFTERWORD


The Smoky God
Or
A Voyage to the Inner World

"He is the God who sits in the center, on
the navel of the earth, and he is the interpre-
ter of religion to all mankind." -- PLATO.


PART ONE

AUTHOR'S FOREWORD

I FEAR the seemingly incredible story which I am about to relate
will be regarded as the result of a distorted intellect
superinduced, possibly, by the glamour of unveiling a
marvelous mystery, rather than a truthful record of the
unparalleled experiences related by one Olaf Jansen, whose
eloquent madness so appealed to my imagination that all
thought of an analytical criticism has been effectually