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Updated: May 23, 2025
It wound about among fallen fragments and crumbling statues, and took us along a wide avenue between buildings of vast size and solidity, far superior to any we had seen in Nhu-Yok. It seemed a city of monuments. As we ascended the hill to the great temple and saw it through the trees rising high above us, we were much impressed by its vast size and beauty.
"What is ours?" I asked. "The knowledge we sought;" and he pointed to the inscription, He was tremulous with joy. "Thou hast heard of Nhu-Yok, O my Prince?" I answered that I had read of it at school. "Thou art in it now!" he said. "We are standing on the Western Continent. Little wonder we thought our voyage long!" "And what was Nhu-Yok?" I asked. "I read of it at college, but remember little.
Land could be seen on the starboard bow, a faint strip along the western horizon. It was about the middle of the afternoon, while passing the ruins of a gigantic tower perhaps a lighthouse that Nofuhl, of a sudden, clambered hastily to his feet and looked about him. Then he called to Grip-til-lah, asking how many leagues we were from the harbor of Nhu-Yok.
A day like this, it was, also in June, as the Europeans, coming northward along the coast to seize Nhu-Yok, met the Mehrikan Admiral Nev-r-sai-di with his eighty ships. And the struggle was short. Khan-li. Verily, I can believe it! With three ships to one I would give the Europeans about half a day a summer afternoon like this to send the greedy ones to the bottom. Nofuhl.
And did this take the place of literature? Nofuhl. Even so. 20th June Once more we are on the sea; two days from Nhu-Yok. Our decision was a sudden one. Nofuhl, in an evil moment, found among those accursed plates a map of the country, and thereupon was seized with an unreasoning desire to visit a town called "Washington."
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