Show news from the tee Int internal erual regions Beg ioas some months ago a canadian of the rocky moah I 1 jain tain party to whom I 1 had rendered some services bro brought t to me a bundle of papers of which he gave ate ne t the e following singular account he said that beyond the mountains aims he tell fell in with a party of the bay company with this party he found a brother that he had not seen see for miny years H 3 brother gave wave him the blindly of papers and informed info med trim him that about two ve years before he had been on a hunting party eist east of maenz deli e river where he tell fell in with a tribe of elauim mx indi indians amsy from froia one of whom he received the bundle in ia exchange for a knife the ile indian told him that a long longtime time ago his liand band was encamped on the sea shore a great distance to the northeast north east that one day a strange man was seen on the ice coing corn ng toward them that the stranger was greatly exhausted from hunger and cold that hat he took nim aim to eisent his tent and gave li m food he died the next day and left the bundle of papers pape its secure ly wrapped up in w s skins kins if my curiosity curio siy was excited at this singular history of these papers apers it was much more so when on examination lay they proved to be a narrative of the travels and extras dary adventures of an american by the name of jonathan wilder the pipers are in in ag a geat g eat i I 1 ly deranged state and appele app appeared eie d to nave have stife reef f orn om t the rude hands through which they had passed the narrative is written partly pa on common paper and partly artly on rude parchment 7 and what appears to be e the tark bark of a tree it appears i that mr wider W ider was miny many yearl yeas ago wrecked ton on the coast of africa was taken brisonet pris by the natives and was carried into the interior of the country that he passed through many nations of africa as a slave to te a black merchant that he eventually fell in in with and was ransomed rans omed by the celebrated mungo park whom he afterwards accompanied on his travels he qt ates that mr park himself and three natives were descending a large river the name of which is rubbed out in the manuscript but presumed to be the niger they came to a large ine city at which they proposed to land but were diverted from vit it by the hostile atti attitude bide of the natives who appear js ed on the bank in immense numbers they p passed assed the city followed by the natives on the banks hallot t ing an and aitt using singular gestures which added to their apprehension that ni mischief nr was intended in a short distance the river became contracted and the current L greatly increased wl which aich induced them to attempt a landing at all hazards but it was now too lat late the I 1 driver river became a perfect rapid rocks and shirli whirlpools beset them on all ad sides and they soon lost all aft control over the direction of the boat A large mountain appeared directly ahead with a chasm in its base gaping to receive them ih the three ethree natives had jumped overboard on the first alarm park and wilder clung to the boat and awaited their fate which they saw was vas inevitable they soon lost i all sense of their situation and eventually found faund them f selves thrown upon a small island within the bowels of the mounta n hereth here they remained some two subsisting on dead ari aneals mals and fish which they found in abundance cast upon the island their eyes had in a little time become accustomed to th their air dark abode abod e and band they were enabled to see and to feel fed the horrors of f their situation on the rocks rose perpendicular cular from either shore ant and formed an arch overhead which effectually precluded all idea of an escape grown desperate in a situation which destroyed all hope of ever again seeing the light of heaven and fearing too that the next rise of water would sweep them even from that desolate island they determined to embark in their boat which wh ch had sustained no great injury and aid submit themselves to providence believing that no BO fate could be more h horrible ae than that which await oed d them in their present abode they accordingly once more launched themselves into the foaming ci current and were carried along with inconceivable rapidity until becoming entangled in an addy and landed op ap abnot another er island where to belr gr grear eat astonishment they fe wind ind an old gm who A signs 19 ns gave them to understand und undo stand estand that he had been fore 3 2 do down w a the river and thrown on the island when but a toy oy where he had ever since remained its sol twy tw y tenant they again embarked accompanied by the old leg 0 who gladly united hi hia fate w th his new ac the cu curent tent gradually gradi ally became less ra rap P A d bind and they occasionally canted landed for lepose 0 ir party I 1 tiow bow began bean to e eit at ertain some taint faint ho hopes pes that the river after running under tinder the mountain would carry them in safely out on the other side after a voyage 0 considerable duration to their great joy and astonishment ashment ish ment they were suddenly launched into daylight te view of an open sea but in what quarter quaker of the globe they were at a loss to conjecture tc ture I 1 ane party now landed to seek repose after afier their I 1 long and arduous ovis voyage and congratulated each 1 iother nal nfl er on their mirac miraculous alons escape ana and yet vet they could se ea icely arcely satisfy themselves that all had not been edream fd dream ream tile party remained here several da days pew lewing ng the su sti round n ng count country rv and endeavoring to and nd out on whit what part of the 11 gobe they were cas ut t as no sun moon or stars had ap appeared pared M parks li tru t ments were of no avail neither could his maps od charts throw any light on the subject reflecting on their late extraordinary adventures ad nd their present singular situation situ aton aVon mr park was induced to examine ne a book he had with him contain fag bg some philosophical speculations oh the organization i odthe globe this book appeared about the tion century turi and supposed ed to lo have been written by a french frenchman man im under der the title of Telle an east indian indan philosopher the writer had advanced the sin Kil aridea that at the wate waters had once covered the globe ta mat t by some convulsion of nature the earth aphea appeared red that mankind sprang from the sea and nally had tells which in time dropped off Y 1 ke the tall of a tad iole e and that the globe was hollow within and made ip of concentric shells at any other time our party part uld have laughed at the specula speculations tiow of th 3 9 phil phit sopher pher as the visionary ef fusions of at a crazed imag lation n but looking back to their late eventful voy ee and their present situation in a pirre clear atmos here and seeing neither her sun sim moon or stars stare the truth ached h on their minds i that they had penetrated the lobe and were the then in in the Ini internal ernal reg ons fwu full of this idea our party embarked and coasted tiong g the shore some days and at last came to a large irell irell built populous city the ile astonishment of our was not greater than that of the inhabit el jets ts who flocked round them in immense numbers on in a Iari language guage to wilder but recognized by park as the hebrew tongue and the keople le proved to he be a colony of jews mr wilder aves a long and fanciful description of the city and Is inhabitants abitanta abi tants and enters minutely into a history of fleir manners habits and customs which do not ap I 1 tear to have undergone any material alteration from ne me manners and customs of their ancestors as recorded in holy writ the art of printing is unknown I 1 ab t this people but they have written records of the feat t events from the creation of the world down ip the he sacking of jerusalem by the king of babylon I 1 yada aha ev r king and people carried ram ed away captive why V have a tradition that when their king zt zedekiah adekiah led from toe the city of jerusalem to the plains of jericho where and his army awo made prisoners an angel appeared to those who remained in the cit city I 1 and after having cavino selected all the virtuous virtu ons and faithful led them forth uy by night and conducted ther them th thia miny many nations and for many da daysun W ya unto C i a cave or hole in the e earth w d which was closed 80 t th at t A h the e the wadd they now inhabit bit as a place of r 4 I 1 whre they are to remain until the coming odthe messiah egg i ah who they believe is to lead them b back to the land la nd of their forefathers anaw and as a reward for their sufferings and their constancy will make them a great and m gaty nation to whom all the other nations of the earth shall be subject they say it was foretold them that about the year of the world a great prophet would appear on the surface of the globe who would build a city of rebun refuge and gather together the remnants of the scattered scatter tribes of israel preparatory to the restoration this people ibave have immense wealth in all the prec precious ions metals and an abundance of domestic animal the most remarkable of which is an animal much larger i than the elephant of the old world and supposed by mr wilder to be the limmoth mim moth whose bones are occasionally found on the american continent they have neither sun moon or stars but receive light fight a and heat from the reflection of 4 the sun on an immense luminous body placed opposite two holes or openings I 1 one at the north and the other at the south an pole and I 1 the light and the seasons are regulated by the revolving in of the e earth the e innab inhabitants I 1 s have av spread I 1 over tg the most part 0 the interior r world orld but reside principally in in cities citi 9 though governed go ve arned b by the e same e laws W wars and rebellions are arc ver very y f eq nent their ir chief city and the thet r seat of ge government ov ram ent where the king resides is called the city ci of noah whilst wilder was there several cities rebelled re belled against mordecai their kings king but were subdued and heavy contributions levied on them firearms fire arms have long since been known to them and they have larg large ge magazines of arms anns and military stores these sometimes soe mes blow up tip and do great damage to lives and proper property r mr wilder enters into some specula speculations tiong as to toe the probable effect such con concussions concuss cussons ons have on the external of the globe and arrives at the conclusion that ow our earthquakes are caused by the blowing up of these powder houses park and W X ider fed over the greater part of the th e internal world audited andi and ted both the poles the pole is surrounded sw rounded by the sea but at the north a rim of land surrounds the opening except a narrow strait connecting the external with the then internal seas this people say that about two thousand years ago a pat pa ct t of the nation rebelled and determined ned to retain to jerusalem they journeyed jour northward and went 01 out it at the north hole and were never seen or heard of afterwards this het fact led ld pak and wilder to entertain a hope of being able to return to their own country by the same route wilder makes some pertinent t remarks and suggestions as to the probable origin of the indians of the american continent park and wilder having finished their exploration of the country became anxious to return to the old world and having provided themselves with necessaries for their jour journey came out at the north pole they travelled nearly round rolind the polar opening which they judged to be two or gr three hundred mites miles in diameter and made many attempts to penetrate to the south but suffered so much from cold and fatigue th that at they gave up all hopes of succeeding and r resolved to return and end their days with ahe the new found people nothing No thins however could subdue the desire in t the e breast of wilder to revisit his native land and af after ter some time he determined to make another attempt he started alone traversed traversal the regions around the pole the climate of which he describes as quite efte in mild K growing colder as he progressed south ger after innumerable hardships he penetrated the wilderness and arrived at the open sea he journeyed eastward along the sea shore until he be came to a tongue of land stretching away to the south this he rightly concluded adjoined or approached the american conti nent he now thi journeyed 0 southeast south east forty five days and arrived at the extreme point of land in view of the american continent from which he was separated by a strait twenty five or thirty miles he gives a glowing glowing description of his feelings on arriving in in sight of his native continent apol and the hope of once more seeing his country coti and his home it was now md midsummer summer the strait was frozen over but appeared open larther further south he here makes his last entry on h his i journal he resolves to attempt the passage of the strait and if he succeeded endeavor to find his big way to some indian nation or perhaps some of the B ibish posts it appears he lived to set foot on his native shores and died or was murdered by the savages in several parts of mr wilder Wil dejOs narrative he be touches on oa the subject of converting to christianity the jews of the interior world and in a note to one or of his last chapters chapter he aphea 9 to have ha ve formed the design if he should live to reach his native town of boston to prepare himself as a missionary and return to the people he had left I 1 have given but a sketch of some ot of the prominent prom ment parts of this wondrous ous narrative the papers are greatly disordered ordered ds and as soon as my leisure will permit I 1 intend preparing them tor for the press the work including maw mat and will probably occupy a volume of some three hundred pages in the meantime the curious may have an opportunity of examining the singular manuscript by calling on me As wonderful as the narrative appears to be to me it has the stamp of authenticity CORNELIUS P k nn Q street SL 81 louls louis |