which is here on exhibition shall be put in the waters of the
river Hiddekel at its mouth, and we will bid you Jehovah-speed."

Thus terminated our only interview with the High Priest or Ruler
of the continent.



PART FOUR

IN THE UNDER WORLD

WE learned that the males do not marry before they are from
seventy-five to one hundred years old, and that the age at which
women enter wedlock is only a little less, and that both men and
women frequently live to be from six to eight hundred years old,
and in some instances much older.[18]

[18 Josephus says: "God prolonged the life of the
patriarchs that preceded the deluge, both on account of their
virtues and to give them the opportunity of perfecting the
sciences of geometry and astronomy, which they had discovered;
which they could not have done if they had not lived 600
years, because it is only after the lapse of 600 years
that the great year is accomplished." -- Flammarion, Astronomical
Myths, Paris p. 26.]

During the following year we visited many villages and towns,
prominent among them being the cities of Nigi, Delfi, Hectea, and
my father was called upon no less than a half-dozen times to go