The summer waned into autumn, and the days began to narrow down. Blasts from the south grew keener; and his flight from us was more circumscribed. We saw him almost daily. When the winter nights began, he gave himself up again to memory. He drew towards us in sympathy, and there were in his narrative fewer and fewer reserves. His English became fuller and more exact, though time and again he stumbled over thoughts too subtle to transfuse into so rough and materialistic a language. Our own interpretations of his descriptions must often have been mistaken, we are certain, and many passages we have had to omit because of manifest ambiguity or mistiness of expression. GODFREY SWEVEN. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE iii GLOSSARY vii I.--MY AWAKENING 1 II.--MY EDUCATION 15 III.--SLEEP, REST, AND FLIGHT 25 IV.--HERMITRY 35 V.--JOURNEY TO THE VALLEY OF MEMORIES 51 VI.--FIALUME 63 VII.--LEOMARIE 88 VIII.--RIMLA 99 IX.--OOMALEFA 112 X.--THE FIRLA, OR ELECTRIC SENSE 133 XI.--A CATASTROPHE 149 XII.--OOLOREFA 162 XIII.--THE LILARAN 174 XIV.--CHOKTROO 192 XV.--THE DUOMOVAMOLAN OR COSMOPHONE 219 XVI.--THEIR HEAVEN AND THEIR HELL 230 XVII.--MY EDUCATION CONTINUED 244 POSTSCRIPT 283 BOOK II 287 GLOSSARY AILOMO--The astrobiological families. AIROLAN--A sensometer, or instrument for finding the personal equation of a man. ALCLIROLAN--Radiographic cinematograph; an instrument combining microscope, camera in vacuo, and electric power. ALFARENE--Oxygen shrub. AMMERLIN--Historoscope. CIRALAISON--Museum of terrors. CLEVAMOLAN--Combination of telescope and makrakoust, or distance-hearer. CLIMOLAN--Earth-sensor. CLIROLAN--Instrument that combines electro-microscopy and photography. CLIROLANIC--Infinitesimally microscopic. CORFALEENA--Vacuum-engine car. DOOMALONA--The hill of farewells. DUOMOVAMOLAN--Instrument that interprets the music of the cosmos.