THE NEW WORLD How long I slept I do not know.

My sleep was profound, yet disturbed by troubled dreams, in which I lived over again all the eventful scenes of the past; and these were all intermingled in the wildest confusion.

The cannibals beckoned to us from the peak, and we landed between the two volcanoes.

There the body of the dead sailor received us, and afterward chased us to the boat.

Then came snow and volcanic eruptions, and we drifted amid icebergs and molten lava until we entered an iron portal and plunged into darkness.