![]() MY DESPAIR UPON FINDING THE PIPE OF THE FUNNEL TOO SMALL FOR MY BODY.-A RAY OF HOPE BREAKS IN UPON ME.-FULL ACCOUNT OF HOW I SUCCEEDED IN ENTERING THE PIPE OF THE FUNNEL.-MY PASSAGE THROUGH IT.-BULGER’S TIMELY AID.-THE MARBLE HIGHWAY AND SOME CURIOUS THINGS CONCERNING THE ENTRANCE TO THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD. UP AND STILL UP, AND THROUGH THE QUARRIES OF THE DEMONS.-HOW THE CATTLE KEPT THE TRAIL, AND HOW WE CAME AT LAST UPON THE BRINK OF THE GIANTS’ WELL.-THE TERRACES ARE SAFELY PASSED.-BEGINNING OF THE DESCENT INTO THE WELL ITSELF.-ALL DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.-WE REACH THE EDGE OF POLYPHEMUS’ FUNNEL. WELL.-I RESOLVE TO VISIT IT.-PREPARATIONS TO ASCEND THE MOUNTAINS.-WHAT HAPPENED TO YULIANA AND TO ME.-REFLECTION AND THEN ACTION.-HOW I CONTRIVED TO CONTINUE THE ASCENT WITHOUT YULIANA FOR A GUIDE. MY WOUND HEALS.-YULIANA TALKS ABOUT THE GIANTS’ IVAN MORE AND MORE TROUBLESOME.-BULGER WATCHES HIM CLOSELY.-HIS COWARDLY ATTACK UPON ME.-MY FAITHFUL BULGER TO THE RESCUE.-A DRIVER WORTH HAVING.-HOW I WAS CARRIED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.-IN THE HANDS OF OLD YULIANA.-THE GIANTS’ WELL. WRITTEN BY THE LEARNED DON FUM.-PARTING INTERVIEWS WITH THE ELDER BARON AND THE GRACIOUS BARONESS MY MOTHER.-PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.ĭON FUM’s MYSTERIOUS DIRECTIONS.-BULGER AND I SET OUT FOR PETERSBURG, AND THENCE PROCEED TO ARCHANGEL.-THE STORY OF OUR JOURNEY AS FAR AS ILITCH ON THE ILITCH.-IVAN THE TEAMSTER.-HOW WE MADE OUR WAY NORTHWARD IN SEARCH OF THE PORTALS TO THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD.-IVAN’S THREAT.-BULGER’S DISTRUST OF THE MAN AND OTHER THINGS. I READILY CONSENT, FOR I HAD BEEN READING OF THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD IN A MUSTY OLD MS. ![]() Von Troomp, commonly called “Little Baron Trump,” and hisīULGER IS GREATLY ANNOYED BY THE FAMILIARITY OF THE VILLAGE DOGS AND THE PRESUMPTION OF THE HOUSE CATS.-HIS HEALTH SUFFERS THEREBY, AND HE IMPLORES ME TO SET OUT ON MY TRAVELS AGAIN. Why may it not be the famous Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian If a visitor asks the guide who this man is, he always gets forīut little Baron who, that’s the question? That he knew he was sitting for his portrait. Table and looking straight out with an air of dignity that shows The man’s right hand rests upon the back of a dog sitting on a The broad face is full of intelligence,Īnd the large gray eyes are lighted up with a good-naturedīut quizzical look that invariably attracts attention. He is dressed in some outlandishĬostume, and holds in his left hand a grotesque image The portraits of Pomeranian notables hanging in the RathhausĪt Stettin, there is one picturing a man of low stature, and withĪ head much too large for his body. The date of his death cannot beįixed with any certainty but this much may be said: Among Vigrowth of the many myths and fanciful stories concerning this Look upon him as half bigwig and half magician-hence the Such strange objects picked up here and there in the far awayĬorners of the world, that the simple-minded peasantry came to His travels at an incredibly early age, and filled his castle with Of his are to-day well-known Pomeranian gentry. He was the last of his race in the direct line, although cousins Was born some time in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The “Little Baron,” so called from his diminutive stature, Troomp became a subject of that prince, and purchased a largeĮstate in the province of Pomerania, again changing his name, The invitation of the Elector of Brandenburg, Niklas Van der ![]() Of Van der Troomp, just as many other of the French Protestants Trompe-which, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes inġ685, took refuge in Holland, where its head assumed the name The family was originally French Huguenot-De la To head them off in this particular instance by proving thatīaron Trump was a real baron, and not a mere baron of the Popping up on all occasions, Jack-in-the-Box-like, it may be well V BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF WILHELM HEINRICHĪs doubting Thomases seem to take particular pleasure in Produced from images generously made available by The Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARON TRUMP'S UNDERGROUND JOURNEY *** Title: Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey ![]() To check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have The Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of Other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, by The Project Gutenberg eBook of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, by Ingersoll Lockwood ![]()
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