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Title: The Goddess of Atvatabar
Being the history of the discovery of the interior world
and conquest of Atvatabar

Author: William R. Bradshaw

Release Date: June 15, 2010 [EBook #32825]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Map of the Interior World._]

THE
GODDESS OF ATVATABAR

BEING THE
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY
OF THE
INTERIOR WORLD
AND
CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR

BY

WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
J. F. DOUTHITT
286 FIFTH AVENUE
1892

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY
WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW

* * * * *

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

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.