Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: ONLY AUTHENTIC PORTRAIT OF WILHELM HEINRICH SEBASTIAN VON TROOMP (FROM THE OIL PAINTING). ] BARON TRUMP’S MARVELLOUS UNDERGROUND JOURNEY BY INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD AUTHOR OF “TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE BARON TRUMP AND HIS WONDERFUL DOG BULGER” “WONDERFUL DEEDS AND DOINGS OF LITTLE GIANT BOAB AND HIS TALKING RAVEN TABIB” “EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF LITTLE CAPTAIN DOPPELKOP ON THE SHORES OF BUBBLELAND” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES HOWARD JOHNSON BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET 1893 COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD _All Rights Reserved_ MARVELLOUS UNDERGROUND JOURNEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF WILHELM HEINRICH SEBASTIAN VON TROOMP, COMMONLY CALLED LITTLE BARON TRUMP As doubting Thomases seem to take particular pleasure in popping up on all occasions, Jack-in-the-Box-like, it may be well to head them off in this particular instance by proving that Baron Trump was a real baron, and not a mere baron of the mind. The family was originally French Huguenot—De la Trompe—which, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, took refuge in Holland, where its head assumed the name of Van der Troomp, just as many other of the French Protestants rendered their names into Dutch. Some years later, upon the invitation of the Elector of Brandenburg, Niklas Van der Troomp became a subject of that prince, and purchased a large estate in the province of Pomerania, again changing his name, this time to Von Troomp.