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Updated: June 20, 2025
Even Nofuhl is puzzled over the wooden image we brought aboard yesterday. It is well preserved, with the barbaric coloring still fresh upon it. They found it standing upright in a little shop. How these idols were worshipped, and why they are found in little shops and never in the great temples is a mystery.
But the barbarian understood with difficulty and they had much trouble in conversing, chiefly from reason of Nofuhl's pronunciation. He afterward told me that this man's language differed but little from that of the Mehrikans, as they wrote it eleven centuries ago. When he finally arose in talking with Nofuhl I could better observe him.
"Let us seat ourselves in the shade," said Nofuhl, "and I will tell thee of them." We sat. "For eleven centuries the cities of this sleeping hemisphere have decayed in solitude. Their very existence has been forgotten. The people who built them have long since passed away, and their civilization is but a shadowy tradition.
Curious jackets with tight sleeves compressed the body. The feet throbbed and burned in close-fitting casings of un-yielding leather, and linen made stiff by artificial means was drawn tightly about the neck. Khan-li Allah! What idiots! Nofuhl Even so are they considered. Khan-Ii. To what quality of their minds do you attribute such love of needless suffering? Nofnhl.
He tottered as he moved back into the doorway, where he leaned against the wall for an instant, his eyes meeting ours with a look of defiance and contempt that I would willingly forget. Then the staff dropped from his hand; he staggered out to the great portico, and fell his length upon the pavement. Nofuhl hastened to him, but he was dead.
As he fell a wonderful thing took place an impossible thing, as I look back upon it, but both Nofuhl and I saw it distinctly. In front of the great steps and facing this doorway is a large sitting image of George-wash-yn-tun.
They then separated, taking no thought of temple or priest for another seven days. Nofuhl says they were not a religious people. That the temples were filled mostly with women. In the afternoon we found it necessary to traverse a vast pleasure-ground, now a wild forest, but with traces still visible of broad promenades and winding drive-ways.
By landing higher up the river we explored a part of the city where the buildings are of a different character from those we saw yesterday. Nofuhl considers them the dwellings of the rich. In shape they are like bricks set on end, all very similar, uninteresting, and monotonous.
Enormous ships without sails, driven by a mysterious force, bore hundreds of people at a time to the farthermost points of the earth." "And are these things lost?" I asked. "We know many of the forces," said Nofuhl, "but the knowledge, of applying them is gone. The very elements seem to have been their slaves.
I pointed it out to Nofuhl, and we bent over it with eager eyes. It was this: ASTOR HOUSE "The inscription is Old English," he said. "'House' signified a dwelling, but the word 'Astor' I know not. It was probably the name of a deity, and here was his temple." This was encouraging, and we looked about eagerly for other signs.
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