volcanoes spouting fire. Then tropic scenes of infinite luxuriance.
Terrific reptiles feeding on the brinks of marshes, and huge elephant-
like animals moving between palms beyond. Then, in a glade, rough huts
and about them a jabbering crowd of creatures that were only half
human, for sometimes they stood upright and sometimes ran on their
hands and feet. Also they were almost covered with hair which was all
they had in the way of clothes, and at the moment that I met them,
were terribly frightened by the appearance of a huge mammoth, if that
is the right name for it, which walked into the glade and looked at
us. At any rate it was a beast of the elephant tribe which I judged to
be nearly twenty feet high, with enormous curving tusks.

The point of the vision was that I recognized myself among those hairy
jabberers, not by anything outward and visible, but by something
inward and spiritual. Moreover, I was being urged by a female of the
race, I can scarcely call her a woman, to justify my existence by
tackling the mammoth in her particular interest, or to give her up to
someone who would. In the end I tackled it, rushing forward with a
weapon, I think it was a sharp stone tied to a stick, though how I
could expect to hurt a beast twenty feet high with such a thing is
more than I can understand, unless perhaps the stone was poisoned.

At any rate the end was sudden. I threw the stone, whereat a great
trunk shot out from between the tusks and caught me. Round and round I
went in the air, reflecting as I did so, for I suppose at the time my
normal consciousness had not quite left me, that this was my first
encounter with the elephant Jana, also that it was very foolish to try
to oblige a female regardless of personal risk. . . .

All became dark, as no doubt it would have done, but presently, that