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Mummy case of a priestess of the college of Amen-Ra,
about 1600 B.C. A most weird and mysterious story is connectedwith
this relic. It was first removedfrom its burial place by a band of Arabs, and later fell
into the hands of a Europeanparty.
Since then, a series of fatalities have attended those who have in any way had any connection
it.

with
It

now resis the

in

first Egyptian
at

Room the British Museum.

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 The Mysterious Mummy.
The Strangest Ghost Story of Ten Thousand
Years how Malignant Influence has

a
haunted an empty Mummy Case, now at
the British Museum, ever since the Mummy
which Contained was Removed over Sixty

it
Years ago. With Full Account of the

a
Strange Rites and Mysteries connected with
the Ancient Egyptian Custom of Embalming
the Dead.

By G. S.T. RUSSELL.

IN a dark corner of the Probably the burial

First Egyptian Room in place was carefully
the British Museum stands hidden, for the object

of
the cover for a mummy, embalming was that the
portraying a nameless body should remain pre
Egyptian woman, who served for the use of its
Mummified bodies the cat being
in Thebes thirty owner on his return from

a
of cats. These are lived sacred animal in
often found in under-world; and the religion of
Egyptian tombs,
five centuries ago. Her the the
ancient Egypt.
long hands are crossed body the priestess lay
of
Photosby Mansell.
upon her breast, and peace through
in

the

by
her dark eyes strangely forward into centuries, until was disturbed
at
stare last

it

a
vacancy. roving band This was about sixty
of

Arabs.
The mummy cover is a very fine specimen years ago, and some way the mummy was
its in
its

of period the eighteenth dynasty; but separated from case, and disappeared.
it

glass against the wall, party

its

line
in

in

of

of
stands case About the middle the 'sixties

up
many dahabia for trip
of

five friends went

in

with other the weird and beautiful the

a
a

They went Luxor,

in of

of

works art connected with the burial the Nile. on

to

to
their way
dead ancient Egypt, and the sightseers the Second Cataract, and there explored
by

quiet glance. Thebes, with temple Amen-Ra, un

its

to

pass with
it

on

Yet dark, mysterious history. Over equalled ruined magnificence.

its
in

has earth
it

this relic there hangs terrible story, which English lady title enter
of

well-known
A
a

has been well called the strangest ghost tained the party, and the consul, Musaph
story Aga, gave One night
be

the world. will never written /ē/e their honour.

in

to in
its It

full; chapters may his friends an Arab, who

be

the consul sent

of

but some told

in

in few words. reported had just found

mummy case
he

of
a

he

About 1600 years before Christ, priestess unusual worth. Next morning brought
a

College Amen-Ra lived and died inspection. picture

to
of

of of

in

the the case for was seen

It

the mighty city Possibly she was face, strange beauty,

of

of

Thebes. woman's but

a
a

royal personage; she appears cold malignity expression. The case was
of
to

have been
at a

by

high rank, but bought party, Mr. D., who,

of

of

to of

least her name and one the

life-story nothing known. No doubt her however, agreed draw lots with the others
is

for possession the treasure; and the case

all

body was embalmed with

of

the care that the

Egyptians, particularly the priests, bestowed passed friend, whom we may call Mr. W.
to
a
an

upon this work, essential part From that time history has been clearly
its
of

their
by

an
its

religion. The mummy was inclosed traced a history marked uncanny

in

wooden shell, and placed the appointed fatalities, which appear not
to
of
in

series have
burial place the priests and priestesses ceased, even after the case found its abode
of

of

the college. among thousand similar relics.

a
 PEARSON'S THE MYSTERIOUS
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It was in 1837 that Sir -proved that they were neither

Howard Vyse solved the granaries nor sun-dials, but simply
problem of the Pyramids by huge sepulchres. After cutting in
cutting his way down into vain through hundreds

of

of
feet

he
the foundation of the Third solid masonry, discoveredthe real
Pyramid at Gizeh. He entrance passage the side.

at
On the return journey
the party, one of
of living Egyptian woman

of
showed the face

a
accidentally staring straight before her with expression

an
the members was shot in the
arm by his servant, through a gun exploding singular malevolence. Shortly afterwards
of

without visible cause. The arm had to be the photographer died suddenly and mys
amputated. Another died in poverty within teriously.
a year. A third was shot. The owner of happened

D.
About this time Mr.

to
meet
the mummy case found, on reaching Cairo, coffin lid, and, hearing her
of

the owner the

that he had lost a large part of his fortune, story, begged her part with it; and she
to
and died soon afterwards. sent to the British
Museum. The carrier
it

The priestess of Amen-Ra was showing who took died within week, and the man
it

her displeasure in a convincing manner. who assisted him met with serious accident.
a

When the case arrived in England, it was This the history

as

was verified with

is

it

owner, Mr. W.,

its

given by exception the last statement by one

to

of

married the
a

living At once misfor pains gather

at

sister near London. who for three months was to

tune fell upon her household; large financial tangled evidence,
of

the threads the and

all

losses were suffered, bringing other troubles gained proofs the identity
of

of

those who
with them. suffered from the anger the priestess the
of

But before this, one day the Theosophist, late Mr. B. Fletcher Robinson. We have
told it; and
he

Mme. Blavatsky, entered the room told the story very much
as

which
in

the case had been placed. She soon declared

he

every
of

declared that one his facts was

most maiignant influence absolutely authentic. He himself seems
to

there was
in

the
a

room. On finding the cover, she begged her have thought that when the mummy case
away, declaring the Museum, and was installed
in
be

arrived
to

of at
to

hostess send
it

a
it

thing the utmost danger. The lady, how place honour, the series
of

of

fatalities had
a

ever, laughed foolish super ended, for he wrote:

as

this idea
at

stition. Perhaps that the priestess only used

is
it

Presently she sent the case well-known her powers against those who brought her
to
a

photographer into the light day, and who kept her

as
of

Baker Street. Within an

in

called upon her great excitement, private room; but that now,
he

week ornament
in

in
a

had photographed the standing among queens and princesses

he
to

say that while

of

face with the greatest care, and could guaran

no

equal rank, she longer makes use

of

the
tee that no one had touched either his malign powers which she possesses.
the photograph, the photograph lady, Mrs. St. Hill, who recently
or

negative But
a

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 THE MYSTERIOUS A STRANGE TRUE
NIUMMY. 165 GHOST STORY.

delivered a lecture in London, in which she of these bandages have been found on a single
told the story, remarked that not long after mummy.
Mr. Fletcher Robinson had recorded the The parts
taken from the body were
facts, he himself died at an early age, after a cleansed and preserved in vases, known now
brief illness. as canopic jars.
Is the priestess of Amen-Ra still unappeased? In another method oil of cedar, a powerful
:* # + # * dissolvent, was injected, and the body laid in
Every mummy is a mysterious mummy. a bath of natrum; only skin and bone remain
To look on a mummy is to wonder to of mummies thus treated. The cost was
wonder at the strange story it might tell of a reckoned at about £80. In the cheapest
long-ago past, to wonder if a living spirit yet mode, practised in the case of the very poor,
haunts the lifeless body. Strange stories a body was only cleansed and steeped in a
hover over these marvellously preserved preparation, then handed to the relatives for
figures of thousands of years ago. It is little burial. some cases the dead were pre
In
that we know about them little we know served in honey a pathetic mummy was that
about anything we can only gaze, and of a little child found in a sealed honey-jar.
wonder, and pass on. Some of the mummies that have
The ancient Egyptians be endured to this day are hard
lieved in an eternal life. - - - and black, and seem as
They held that the soul, - though they were ever
-
in future ages, would - lasting; others, treated
return to the body. with unguents and
Hence it was a spices, drop to pieces
sacred duty to pre soon after they have
serve dead bodies; been un rolled ;

and they fulfilled some are yellow in

this faith at least colour, and very
6000 years ago. brittle, while others
Herodotus and are found still lithe in
others have told us limb, with the bandag
something of their ing excellently done.
methods. The art of pre A body having been
serving the dead was prac preserved from decay, the
tised by a guild appointed next task was to provide
The Sepulchral Chamber of the Third Pyramid
by the law and govern the pyramid excavated by Sir Howard Vyse.
safe burial from the evil
immediately in front of the two figures is seena
ment. Those seeking its disposed, and from
magnificent sarcophagus, which, owing to its
services would be shown enormousweight, was hauledto the surfacewith prowling beasts. The
much difficulty. It was later shipped to England,
models of the finished but the vesselon which it was being transported
nature of the eternal
mummy was neverheardcf after it had left Leghorn. depended upon
in three styles. abode
The most expensive the wealth of the dead.
method cost one talent of silver about The salted body of the very poor
must take
in its

A 240. the sand,

or

In chance shallow grave

in

in in

thisbrains were drawn

the
a

away through nostrils, and then an in

the mountain side or, indeed, common
a

cision was made in the side of the body, and pit; caves are found the Theban hills
in

the inner parts were removed. The cavities filled with skulls and bones of the mummies
poor.
Nobler dead were protected
by of

were washed with palm-wine, and filled with the

myrrh, cassia, and other perfumes, and sewn roughly-made bricks, with vaulted
of

walls
up. For seventy days the body was then roofs; but the wealthy were buried
in
a

steeped in natrum; when it was again washed, building called Mastaba,

or

they were buried

a

and anointed with fragrant unguents, and then the regal pyramid.
in

swathed in linen bandages, the edges smeared such places, with great ceremony, the
In

with gum. As many as four hundred yards dead body was laid rest, the priests and
at

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From The Guideto the Egyptian

Roomsat theBritish Museum.
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The above photographs show respectively a mummy, mummy case, and coffin. The mummy was first put into a mummy
case, then this comination was placed in a coffin, and finally the whole deposited in a sarcophagus.

friends reciting prayers and litanies that the
Aha! or mortal body might be vouchsafed
the power to change into a spiritual body, a
Sahu, to ascend to Heaven and dwell with
the gods. Among other forms of the dead
was a double or ghost, a Ka, which dwelt
in the tomb, and must needs be supplied
with food and water.
In the long, low building of the Mastaba
there were four parts. A chamber served as
a kind of chapel to which friends brought
their funeral offerings, and in which priests
officiated before a tablet inscribed with names
and portraits, and prayers to Osiris. Con
cealed in the thickness of the masonry was
the Serdab, a small recess in which a statue
of the deceased was immured. A narrow
aperture was left so that the smell of the
offerings and incense might reach the figure
in its dark cell; the idea seems to have been
to provide a reserve of safety for the Ka or
ghost, so that even if the mummy were de
stroyed he might still take refuge in the
material body of the statue. The pit or shaft
of the Mastaba led to the Mummy Chamber
below ground. The walls often were richly
decorated with sculpture or painting, and
there was a table for offerings, with perhaps
two or three large vases for wine or water.
In this chamber rested the mummy, in a great
stone sarcophagus, the grooved edges of its
massive lid made fast with cement and pegs.
 THE MYSTERIOUS A STRANGE TRUE
MUMMY. 167 GHOST STORY.

The passage was walled up, the In some tombs were figures
pit filled with earth, sand, or which, in the other world, at a
stones; and the dead, thus word from the dead, became
secure from danger, was left to living men, who would perform
eternal sleep or until the hand for him any hard work to which
of the despoiler should violate he might by condemned. It
its rest. was suspected that he might be
As the centuries rolled by called on to do certain tasks,
burial customs changed, and it as: Toplough and sow, to
came about that the tombs of water the canels, and to carry
the dead were filled with a wealth of appoint- sand from the east to the west. Heart-scarabs
all

Rich foods, and objects greenstone, rolls papyrus, vessels for un

of
ments. which

in
to

Photosby Mansell,
on

Sarcophagus the Queen Amasis According the inscriptions the sarcophagus the royal mummy appears have
II.

to

to
of

been removed someperiod, and the sarcophagus used for royal scribe named Amen-Netep. Apart fromthe mummyitself,
at

canopicjars were placed into the sarcophagus,these containing the heart, liver, lungs, and intestines the deceasedperson,
of
on

four canopicjars are reproduced this page.

of

set
A

the deceased had been accustomed mortal guents, toilet-boxes with combs, mirrors, hair
in

life, were lavishly provided; furniture, articles pins, hair tweezers, sandals, and tubes eye
of

the toilet, toil and pleasure, paint, chairs, couches, cymbals, bells, bows
of

of

of

dress and
with figures gods protect and arrows, daggers, palettes
to
of

the dead, and mystic amulets and paints, dice, draughts, toys,
to

overcome his ghostly gold rings, bracelets, necklaces,

to

aid him
his last long journey. gold, amethyst,
of

and beads
in

foes
And on fixed dates offerings carnelian, lapis-lazuli. These
or

were brought among many rare things

to

the tomb are

the good dwelling. Woe found the old Egyptian tombs.
in
to

the Pyramids
of

those who neglected this sacred The riddle

duty; the Ka was believed --if not the riddle of the
to

almost god-like Sphinxes was solved

an

possess 1837,
in

power punishment. when Howard Vyse cut his way

of
 PEARSON'S THE MYSTERIOUS
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to a subterranean chamber deep down in the rocky

foundation of the Third Pyramid at Gizeh, and
discovered the venerable remains of King Men-kau
Rā, of about 3633 B.C. He proved that the
Pyramids tombs.
were It was the final answer
to the of those stupendous monuments,
riddle
which for 6000 years have stood as sentinels over
the vast cemetery, by the edge of the Libyan
desert, where the ancient Egyptians laid their dead.
The remote antiquity of these colossi their
peculiar construction the doubts as to the meaning
of their chambers and passages, as to whether or
not they might contain hidden treasure made them
an ever-fascinating mystery to the learned and the
curious. According to the Arabs, they were built
before the Flood to preserve the treasures of
science. Some held them to be the granaries
of Joseph. According to one theory they were
built for astronomical observation; or they were
sundials, measuring time with their vast shadows.

all
Massive beyond buildings, cunningly planned
with labyrinthine passages, windowless, doorless,
everywhere hermetically sealed with great blocks

of
stone, they might well thought impregnable.

be
nothing Men
to

of
Yet availed hide the remains
kau-Rä from modern explorers; while remote

in
times other vandals had invaded the Pyramids for
1226 the reigning Khalifa
as

treasure. So far back

gold
he

of
boasted that had carried off number
a

plates.

at be
to
Howard Vyse found the Third Pyramid
about 210 feet high, and the length
of

each side
the base about 350 feet. Cutting his way into the
building, first through the solid masonry, then
he

hitting upon the real entrance, found passage

after passage, chamber after chamber, until
of at

last
the genuine Chamber
he

to

traced his way the

Mummy, fifty feet below the base the Pyramids.
of

He found stone sarcophagus, wooden coffin,

a

inscribed with the King's titles and names, and the

the mummy, wrapped The
of

remains cloth.
in
a

ponderous sarcophagus, which weighed nearly three

tons, was hauled and levered
to

the surface with

trouble, despatched England
to

infinite and
in

The ship safely Leghorn;

at

1838. arrived but

again. But though
of

afterwards was never heard

the sarcophagus was lost, the fragments
of

the
coffin and the mummy afterwards safely made their
London, and now are exhibited
to

way the British

at

Photoby Mansell. Museum.

When one considers the magnitude
of

Lid of a limestonecoffin, B.C. 200. The lid is madein the the task
form of a portrait, with a painted head-dressand inlaid
building this wonderful tomb, the base
of

of

inscription in colours. which

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 PEARson's THE MYSTERIOUS
MAGAZINE. 17o MUMMY.

to

of
covered two and a half acres, and the great set work and soon one the dealers was

pains to which the workmen were put to secure arrested. For time, threats, bribes, even

a
it from violation one can only have a feeling powerless con

of to
tortures were extract

a
fession. But last one the marauders,

at
of pity and sorrow for the long-dead Men

by
he

be
kau-Ră. Little did he dream that his remains, fearful lest should betrayed his con
for which with so strenuous effort he had federates, He led
gave information himself.

to secure an everlasting resting cunningly-secluded shaft

to

of of
attempted the officials

a
tomb Dél-el-bahari, on the west bank
lie

at
place, would exposed

of
to

a
the view

a
gaping London crowd public museum the Nile. Forty feet down, passage, some
in

a
a
long,

to
gallery, far from the land

of
led veritable cave
of
his birth and 200 feet

a
death. treasures.

was the mighty

greater than Men-kau-Ră The place was piled with coffins, mummies,
A

builder, King Chufu (or Cheops),

of
and all valuable relics death-chambers a

he
who
built the Great Pyramid 451 feet high, with priceless
value was made. And

a of
haul
which are 755 feet long; among kings, queens, princesses,

of
of

base the sides host

a

contain 85,000,000 cubic feet and high-priests Amen was found the long
of

of
calculated
to

masonry, weighing millions mummy

of
of

tons. lost Seti

I.
History relates that the building took There was found also the remains of
twenty years, and that 300,000 men were Thothmes the Great, whose reign Cleo

in
employed, gangs 100,000. patra's needle was first set up; and the
of
in

by
# # * # Rameses II., identified
of
# remains some
curious story
as

connected with the the very Pharaoh who commanded the

is
A

I.,

famous alabaster sarcophagus slaughter

of

of
of

Seti the the male infants the

I.,

who reigned about 1370 Israelites a strange and wonderful link with
of

son Rameses
years before Christ. Seti was fighter Old Testament history.
a

he slaughtered Nomad tribes, and brought The whole collection was transported
much spoil into Egypt, including cedarwood safely across the desert and sent down the
from Lebanon; opened up gold and Bulak, where
he

to

river the Museum was

at

it
copper mines, built great temples, dug wells carefully stored.
the desert, and built roads.He died and After time unpleasant odours were noticed,
in

buried with 700 figures and was determined to unroll the mum
to

save him
it

was
kingly

so
from work the under world in mies. One royal lady made her presence
in

the Valley the Kings be hastily buried.

of

to

tomb Thebes.
in

at

felt that she had

Thither, the early part last century,
of
in

* * *
*k

#
came the explorer, Belzoni. He found the
the rock, peculiar and story.
of

of

tomb hewn out Another concerns certain

in It

intricate design, with chambers, cartonnage case now

of

series British Museum.

the
a

pillared halls, and passages, and superbly At one time the practice
of

was the
it

decorated walls with scenes of the life of the Egyptians

in
to

inclose their mummified dead

dead monarch in the under-world. But to these brightly-coloured cases, decorated with
his keen disappointment, the sarcophagus inscriptions, pedigrees, texts, and figures
of

was empty, and broken lid lay on the gods, and

of
its

to

set them the halls the

in

floor. houses, man would have his imme

so

that
a

Not until years after did the missing diate ancestors literally among his household
mummy light, after gods. The portraits
of

come remarkable
to

the dead were

a

fashion. painted on the cases. Among splendid

a

ears of the authorities

in
It

came to the cartonnage cases one presented

of

series
is
be by

long time Arabs had been

C.

Cairo that for Ingram, Esq. story

of

the told
its If

it
a

selling travellers papyri, scarabs, and other

to

true, the curse priest-mummy occu

of

antiquities which evidently belonged royal pant worked out with strange
to

vengeance
a

mummies. In 1881 was determined to and terrible.

its it

this scandal source. Spies were Expedition

to

trace When the Gordon Relief was

 THE MYSTERIOUS A STRANGE TRUE
MUMMY. 171 GHOST STORY.

being organised, so keen Take mine, said Ingram, generously

was the late Mr. Herbert leaving himself with comparatively impotent

a
Ingram to join

it,
small bore.

he
that
manned and took out his Presently the game was sighted, and Sir
own steam launch. He Henry made for fine bull, while Mr. Ingram

a
enormous cow. Firing

he
played notable part her,

an
in
tackled

at
a
more than one engage galloped his pony on ahead, dodging the
ment; and

as
was infuriated animal among the trees. Repeating

a
it
his exciting these tactics, was looking round for another

he
of
souvenir
pur

by
experiences that shot, when was swept out

he

he

of
his saddle
chased for £50 drooping bough.

a
fine mummy No sooner had he touched
a

priest. the ground than the wounded

of

This he sent to elephant was upon him, goring

his home. and trampling him

to
death.
The mummy For days
bore mys the enraged
a

terious inscrip beast kept

tion which an everybody

at at
expert was in bay, but
vited to trans last she was
late. was dispatched,
It

composition poor
d
n
a

blood-curdling Ing

's
m
a
r
and exciting. mangled body
declares that was reverently
It

whosoever dis buried, for the

turbed the body time being,
in

priest ravine; and

of

the
a

should himself when, later

"#,': on, an expedi

be

deprived
"...

of

ran "r" aw".

"

decent burial;
"

tion was sent

£
the district,
it to

Mummy priestess he should meet

atof

of
on a

Amen-Ra Thebes, about - -

B.c. 800, the wooden with violent was found
a

Amodelsof the hands are *c.

rings made death, and his that the floods
of

carnelian
and other precious stones, remains would had washed
while bracelets have been -
imitated by painting. be carried away the re
down by rush mains of the
a

of waters to the sea. unfortunate

sports man,
be

And this proved

to

the
prelude thereby ful
by

"to
to

as

tragedy extra- Man".

a

- -
- Mummy
fill ng
at

ordinary as terrible.
found
during the time
Hawara the
i
of

the Roman

"...', '"
Some time after sending the ancient pro
The wrappings are exceedingly
mummy home, Mr. Ingram and beautiful, being interwoven phecy the
in

- most marvellous manner,

**-1*,
a

the late Sir Henry Meux were

*
-

awful
threat
the priest.
at to

- From The Guide the

of

elephant shooting Somaliland,

in

Egyptian Rooms the

British Museum.
when one day the natives brought Only sock and part
of
of

news
a

Mummy
bone were recovered, and
of

an unknown
the discovery the spoor gigantic
of
of

person painted shroud.

a

in
a

elephant. The temptation was irresistible, these were subsequently The wirework hanging from
the neckholds gilded figures
and the two sportsmen set out immediately interred with military
to

Gods, A.D. 100. The

of

on

honours Aden. mummies this page show

at

hunt up the herd. Sir Henry had unfortunately three different typesextend
left his elephant gun behind. Though the Museum ing over thousand years.
a
 PEARSON'S THE MYSTERIOUS
MAGAZINE. 172 NIUMMY.

has only the cartonnage head, the mummy
itself is in the possession of Lady Meux.
# .# * *
A thousand minor curiosities connected
with mummies are to be found in our national
collection.
There is a series of pawn-tickets for mum
mies ! Out of the practice of keeping
mummies in the house arose the strange
custom of giving the body of a dead parent
as security for debt.
In modern times mummies have been put
to no less strange purposes. Three
hundred years ago Egyptian mummy
one of the ordinary drugs in the apothecary's
shop, and was a favourite prescription for
wounds and bruises. To-day, mummies are
used as the colouring medium of a beautiful
paint, greatly favoured by portrait painters,
and known as Mummy Brown.
Bitumen was used formerly, but it lacked
good drying qualities, and it was found that
bituminised mummies, ground up, remedied
* this trouble, and gave an even finer effect.
A not uncommon use for a fragment of a
mummy is that of paper-weight. King
Edward, we believe, has a beautiful mummi
fied hand on one of his writing-tables.
A singular contrast in hands is to be seen
in the national collection. The one hand is that
of a personage of high rank; it has a golden
ring, and a beautiful little scarab set in gold.
The other is the hand of a poor person. It
or four has only a common, rough scarab, tied on
was with a bit of thread.
So, in spite of the rolling centuries, death
has not wiped away the distinction in class
between the two Egyptians, the former
owners of the hands. But, perhaps, in the
underworld or in the high heavens, there is
now no social distinction between their
spirits.

P I O N E E R S.
Ov ER the waste of trackless white, Itfires the heart within your breast,
Into the silence, into the gloom, As on and on and on you plod,
Over the waste of changing light, To know that where your boot has pressed
Plodding to glory or secret doom; Never a human foot has trod;
On seas of white and grey and green, Never a hand has stirred the snow
Where never a human face was seen, Since first the world began to go;
On startled hills as white as death, No voice has made the mountain ring
We breathe the earliest human breath. With echo of God save the King!

A hundred ghastly miles of snow A hundred ghastly miles of snow

Hiding yet a hundred more. Hiding yet a hundred more.
Plunging into space we go, Plunging into space we go
Where the affrighted heavens roar / Where the affrighted heavens roar /
THOMAS BURKE.
 A Personal Note from Editor to Reader.

As announced last month, entirely original character, his adventures are

Nearest the South
Lieutenant Shackleton original, even his profession is original. The
Pole, Lieutenant
Shackleton's Own
will tell in PEARSON's stories themselves are amazing in their in
Story. MAGAZINE exclusively the genuity, and they hold you from start to
story of his historic jour finish. Mr. Oppenheim has never done
ney to the Antarctic. The first instalment will better work and that is saying a great deal.
appear in the September number of PEARson's Secondly, there will appear in September
MAGAZINE. Many additional details of great the first of a series of sea stories by Mr. Alan
interest will be found in the article com Burgoyne. He writes of what he knows what
mencing on the next page. the next naval war will mean to those who
have to fight The picture paints

he
his

in
I spokE of curious co it.
firststory When H.M.S. Swift went
Coincidences. North of naval battle as viewed from
incidences on this page
a

last month, and inci the battleships concerned

of

one master

is
a
dentally offered three prizes of a guinea each piece strong, vivid word-painting.
of

to readers who send in the best stories of The Story the Up

of
And then there
is

by
coincidences that have come under their own stairs Room, complete story Mr.
a

notice. I
asked them to draw on their ex the grimmest pieces
of

Richard Marsh one

perience rather than their imagination, to tell of realism have ever read. Mr. Marsh

is
a
I

their stories concisely, and not to exceed moods, and he can make his readers
or of

writer
The last day for sending laugh cry this particular case
In
to at

a 500 word limit. will.

in was originally fixed as August 7th, but I make them shudder, and
to
he chooses
will extend the period to the 14th, as hope I tell story that no one who reads will
it
a

many readers who are now fortunate enough easily forget.

to be making holiday may like to enter the Sir Hiram Maxim, the famous inventor and
Mark your envelopes Coincidence, mathematician, also contributes an article
of

lists.
and address them to the Editor, PEARSoN's the greatest interest, entitled The Fallacy
Henrietta Street, London, W.C. Gambling. opponent
an

MAGAZINE,
of

Sir Hiram
of
is

by

betting, not on the ground taken up the

IN addition to Lieutenant faddist, but because,
he

mathe
as

says,
is
it

at a

The September
Number.
Shackleton's contribution matical certainty that the bank Monte
I interesting
have several Carlo and the bookmaker on the racecourse
announcements to make regarding the Sep must win, and that can prevail
no

system
tember number. against them.
Lastly, let me call
of

Firstly, a new series of stories by Mr. E. the attention all

Phillips Oppenheim the September
of to

commences. These readers the fact that

stories centre round one of the most extra pub
be

number PEARSoN's MAGAZINE will

ordinary personalities that have appeared in lished four days early on August 28th,
fiction. Peter Ruff so he is named is an September 1st,
of

instead
 Lieutenant Shackleton's arrival in London. A huge crowd gathered at Charing Cross to meet him, and gave him a wildly
enthusiastic welcomeas he drove off in his carriage with his wife and his two little sons.

Lieutenant Shackleton and His Story.

The Great Explorer's Full Personal Narrative Nearest the South Pole" a
Day-to-Day History of the most arduous Journey ever Undertaken by Man, which
will appear exclusively in PEARSON's MAGAZINE, commencing Next Month.

JUST five and a half years ago Lieutenant MAGAZINE the full story of his wonderful
Shackleton wrote for PEARSON'S MAGAZINE dash to the very edge of the South Pole,
the story of the Discovery voyage to the extending actually to the summit of the
Antarctic, on which, with Captain Scott and lofty plateau somewhere upon whose stormy
Dr. Wilson, he set up a new Furthest South blizzard-swept bosom lies the most southerly
record by reaching a point within 540 miles spot on the earth's surface.
of the South Pole. There is something about Polar exploration
Since that time, Lieutenant Shackleton has that appeals intensely to the imagination of
been South again and established a mankind. Suffering, hardship, and
record which will remain for danger are endured cheerfully in
ever a landmark in the long the cause of a better knowledge
history of Antarctic Ex of the globe. There is no
ploration. By planting tangible treasure waiting
the Union Jack within for the man who first sets
IOO miles of the Pole, foot on the most south
he has given to Great erly point of the earth's
Britain an overwhelm surface, yet to make a
ing lead in the friendly new Furthest South or
rivalry of the pioneers Furthest North record
of the nations of the has been the goal of the
world a rivalry which ambition of many of the
will continue till the last most daring pioneers who
mile of the world's surface is have ever lived.
mapped and charted, or till the And that mankind at large
end of time. does not view that ambition as
Lieutenant Shackleton leaving
Lieutenant Shackleton has Dover Quay with his wife, who a vain and empty one has been
had journeyed down to greet him
now written for PEARSON's after his long absence. proved in no uncertain way
 LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON'S MESSAGE.
In a short time (commencing in the September
number) a series of three articles will appear in
Pearson's Magazine detailing the main results
and adventures of the British Antarctic Expedition
of 1907 to 1909.
It is a peculiar pleasure to me that these articles
should appear in Pearson s Magazine, for I have
been intimately associated with the firm, having
been Assistant Editor of the Royal Magazine
for some time after my return from the National
Antarctic Expedition, and it was in Pearson s
Magazine that I wrote my first article on the
Furthest South Journey in which I took part on the
Discovery Expedition.
The adventures and discoveries made during the
Expedition just over will be related at length, and
the descriptions will be assisted by a number of
unique photographs, amongst which is the scene of
our planting the Queen s flag at the Furthest South,
and the planting of the Union Jack on the South
Magoetic Pole, also the group of men standing at
the summit of Mount Erebus, this mighty, active
volcano never scaled by man before.
**
That the Editor of Pearson s Magazine and
the Staff at Messrs. Pearson s take personal
interest in 1 he Expedition, I know, and I trust that
this story will also appeal to the larger public
which will read the pages of this deservedly
popular magazine.
 PEARSON'S LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON
MAGAZINE. 176 AND HIS STORY.

thousand years hence its conquest

mainly due the knowledge

be
will

to

by
and experience gained Lieutenant
Shackleton and his intrepid following
of three.
Shackleton's story divides itself

In
naturally into three divisions. the
tells how the expedition was

he
first
organised, the voyage out on the

of
AWimrod, and

of

of
the establishment
winter quarters Cape Royds;

in
at
the
describes the preparation

he
second
for the great assault on the South
Pole, and the assault itself a sledge
journey 900 miles, culminating

97 of

at
point geographical miles from

a
the Pole itself; the third, the return

in
journey winter quarters a journey

to
hardship, with low

of
intensified
rations, ebbing strength, and failing
health, between yawning crevasses,
over razor-like edges ice, through

of
blizzards that made the universe
above, below, and around one whirl
drifting, driving penetrating snow.
of

twice despair almost seized

or
Once
them but only almost. By the dis
play indomitable courage
of of

the

in
face all the forces arrayed against
by

them Nature, the gallant little

party arrived spot within thirty
of at
a

Photoby Hir.
three miles the winter quarters,
Lieutenant Shackletonand his youngerson, Cecily; when his father sailed for
the Antarctic this sturdy youngster had beena baby of only a few monthsold. where comfort, warmth, and food
awaited them. Here one of the four
by the reception accorded to Lieutenant broke down, and Lieutenant Shackleton made
Shackleton on his return. The crowds that forced march over the remaining thirty
a

greeted him on his arrival in London made three miles, and, having partaken
of

his first
his progress home resemble the triumph of a square meal many weeks, actually re
in

victorious Roman general. guide the relief party

to

Learned societies turned the

of to

have showered honours upon him; he has succour his companions. Of such stuff
been made a member of the Victorian Order; must he be who would brave the terrors of
he has been chosen one of the Younger the South. -
Brethren of Trinity House; and he has been Lieutenant Shackleton telling his story
in

personally congratulated by Royalty on his has drawn largely on his diary, written
on

high achievement. while actually the sledge journey south,

The story Lieutenant Shackleton has to point special interest
in
of

and another
tell is unique and more than unique some his articles will be the illustrations, the
thing unparalleled in the annals of explora photographs
of

wonderful series taken

on

tion the last word in the possibilities of the expedition being supplemented by
human endurance. It is safe to say that drawings the most exciting incidents pre
of

when if ever the South Pole loses at last pared under Lieutenant Shackleton's personal
supervision.
its

ancient incognito whether

or

soon
a