The Serpent--The Boa--Professors to examine medicinal and other
properties--Modes of capturing wild beasts--Huntsmen--The iron-work
net--The watch-hut--The bait--Dead animals not allowed in the
city--Habits of the tiger--THE TIGER AND THE CHILD--THE UNICORN


XLVII.--THE SUN.

The palace--Communication with auxiliary tower--Observatory--STAR
INSTRUMENT constructed--Secrets revealed--Inhabitants and
atmospheres of the stars differ--Invisible beings--The SUN-OCEAN,
Mountains, and Continents--Winds--Attracted by the heat--Brilliancy
increased by reflection--Every planet has electricity sympathetic
or antipathetic--Different appearance in Montalluyah--Fixed
stars--Comets--Overflowings of the waters--Waters in
space--Conclusion




INTRODUCTION.


By introducing the reader to "Another World," the Editor does not lead
him into a region to which the Earth has no affinity. The Planet to
which the following fragments refer not only belongs to the same solar
system as our own, but also presents like physical aspects. In it, as
here, are to be found land and water--mountains, rivers, seas, lakes,
hills, valleys, ravines, cataracts alternating with each other; though
in consequence of more potent electrical agencies the contrasts between