Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Juliet Sutherland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: _Map of the Interior World._] THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR BEING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE INTERIOR WORLD AND CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR BY WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK J. F. DOUTHITT 286 FIFTH AVENUE 1892 COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW * * * * * CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I.--A Polar Catastrophe, 13 II.--The Cause of the Expedition, 19 III.--Beginning the Voyage, 22 IV.--Our Adventures in the Polar Sea, 26 V.--We Enter the Polar Gulf, 31 VI.--Day Becomes Night and Night Day, 34 VII.--We Discover the Interior World, 40 VIII.--Extraordinary Loss of Weight, 45 IX.--Afloat on the Interior Ocean, 50 X.--A Visit from the Inhabitants of Plutusia, 52 XI.--We Learn Atvatabarese, 57 XII.--We Arrive at Kioram, 61 XIII.--Marching in Triumph, 65 XIV.--The Journey to Calnogor, 72 XV.--Our Reception by the King, 78 XVI.--The King Unfolds the Grandeur of Atvatabar, 83 XVII.--Gnaphisthasia, 86 XVIII.--The Journey to the Bormidophia, 94 XIX.--The Throne of the Gods, Calnogor, 99 XX.--The Worship of Lyone, Supreme Goddess, 103 XXI.--An Audience with the Supreme Goddess, 109 XXII.--The Goddess Learns the Story of the Outer World, 114 XXIII.--The Garden of Tanje, 117 XXIV.--The Journey to Egyplosis, 128 XXV.--Escaping from the Cyclone, 133 XXVI.--The Banquet on the Aerial Ship, 139 XXVII.--We Reach Egyplosis, 144 XXVIII.--The Grand Temple of Harikar, 149 XXIX.--The Installation of a Twin-Soul, 153 XXX.--The Installation of a Twin-Soul (_Continued_) 159