I am Empress in Atlan. Two white pangolins play at my feet, a white peacock drifts across my lawn, a white unicorn waits in my stable. He has no name. I have never been able to name any other mount. The little girl who had adventures is over and done with; no mature balanced woman has been able to take her place. I am an observer, there is nothing active about me. I am neutral, perhaps negative.

I have reached the end of this book.

My nurse Glurbia’s account-book is quite filled, with minute, cramped writing, even the margins have been used up. Now I shall start another diary—for I must always have such a private degree of my identity—but it will never be the same as this one.

However, the inmost kernel of my soul I must retain. All the rest of me belongs to him, my beloved, to him.

And he loves me sometimes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

It may seem pretentious to include a bibliography for a book which in the main is an adventure-story, but its almost every detail hits some basis in prehistory. This is a list of the books which helped most.

The Book of Genesis

The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain by Comyns Beaumont.

Prehistoric Animals by Dr. Joseph Augusta & Zdenek Burian

Moons, Myths and Man by H .S. Bellamy

Built Before the Flood: the Problem of the Tiahuanaco Ruins by H. S. Bellamy

Peru by G. H. S. Bushnell

A Guide to Earth History by Richard Carrington

Gateway to Remembrance by Phyllis Cradock

The Eternal Echo by Phyllis Cradock

The Lost Continent of Mu by James Churchward

The Immense Journey by Dr. Loren Eiseley

The White Goddess by Robert Graves

The Secret of the West by Dmitri Merezhkovsky

Myths of Pre-Co’umbian America by Donald A. Mackenzie

The Celts by T. G. E. Powell

History of the Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria by W. Scott-Elliot

Celtic Myth and Legend by Charles Squires

Secret Cities of Old South America by Harold T. Wilkins

Mysteries of Ancient South America by Harold T. Wilkins

JOIN COLONEL JAMES CHURCHWARD AS HE EX-

PLORES A MYSTERIOUS, POWERFUL CIVILIZA-

TION THAT SANK BENEATH THE SEA THOU-

SANDS OF YEARS AGO!

—The Lost Continent of Mu

“Convincing, well-written and intensely interesting… . it offers the most satisfying theory ever offered on the origin of mankind.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer 54-616, 75¢

—The Children of Mu

“Revises the early history of man … the reasoning is original and inspiring.” —Philadelphia Public Ledger 54-639, 75¢

—The Sacred Symbols of Mu

The strange, true story of the occult origins of ancient and modem religions. “There is no more fascinating contribution to history.”

—Rochester Democrat-Chronicle.

54-663, 75¢

—The Cosmic Forces of Mu

Colonel Churchward reveals the startling scientific discoveries of the fabulous lost civilization of Mu. 54-678, 75¢

THRILLING SWORD AND SORCERY ON THE

LOST CONTINENT OF LEMURIA!

—Thongor Against The Gods by Lin Carter