"There is no man more famous to-day than Lexington White, Admiral of Atvatabar!" said Sir John Forbes. "I thank you, gentlemen, for your kind words," said I; "and now for Dunbar's story." "I think, admiral," said Captain Adams, "that if I were to read you the article containing Dunbar's story written by a special commissioner of the New York _Western Hemisphere_, who was the first to interview Dunbar at Sitka, on learning of his arrival there, it would be perhaps the best narration of his perilous adventures." As the captain spoke he drew a copy of the _Western Hemisphere_ from his pocket. "By all means," I replied, "let us hear what the press said about Dunbar and his adventures." Thereupon Captain Adams read the New York _Western Hemisphere's_ account of Dunbar's adventures, as follows: "AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY! "THE NORTH POLE FOUND TO BE AN ENORMOUS CAVERN, LEADING TO A SUBTERRANEAN WORLD! "THE EARTH PROVES TO BE A HOLLOW SHELL ONE THOUSAND MILES IN THICKNESS, LIT BY AN INTERIOR SUN! "OCEANS AND CONTINENTS, ISLANDS AND CITIES SPREAD UPON THE ROOF OF THE INTERIOR SPHERE! "BOATSWAIN DUNBAR AND SEAMAN HENDERSON, OF THE 'POLAR KING,' HAVING DESERTED THE SHIP AS SHE WAS ENTERING PLUTUSIA, HAVE ARRIVED AT SITKA, ALASKA, IN A DESPERATE CONDITION, AND HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED BY A 'WESTERN HEMISPHERE' COMMISSIONER. "THEY SAY LEXINGTON WHITE, COMMANDER OF THE 'POLAR KING,' IS AT PRESENT SAILING UNDERNEATH CANADA ON AN INTERIOR SEA! "TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITIES FOR SCIENCE AND COMMERCE! "THE FABLED REALMS OF PLUTO NO LONGER A MYTH! "GOLD! GOLD! BEYOND THE DREAMS OF MADNESS! "The story of the discovery of Plutusia and the Polar Gulf, as told by the two shipwrecked survivors of the mutineers of the _Polar King_ now at Sitka, Alaska, to the _Western Hemisphere_, will form an epoch in the history of the world. The renown of Columbus and Magellan is overshadowed by the glory of Lexington White, a citizen of the United States, who fitted out a ship for polar discovery, and, taking the command himself, has unravelled the mystery of the North Pole, discovered the Polar Gulf and the interior world. "Having penetrated the Polar Gulf about three hundred miles, and having discovered the interior sun, a fear seized on a number of the sailors, among whom were Boatswain Dunbar and his companion, Henderson, who are the only survivors of twelve men who left the _Polar King_ in an open boat to return home again, and to whose safe arrival in Sitka the world is indebted for news of the important discoveries that had been made.