The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-02
Vision of the North Pole.

There is child clairvoyant in Balti-
more who, it is claimed, besides other
remark able visions, has had one of the
North Pole. The following is her state
ment, as reported in the Baltimore
American, July 30th:
I am little girl, not quite eleven
years of age. l have spirit guide, an
Indian chief named Wampa. On or
about the 18th Of April, 1870, while
standing at the corner of Saratoga and
Charles streets, Baltimore, Maryland, 1
went with my guide down toward the
center of the earth. l looked upon the
hot, molten and seething mass forming
the earth's center. Thence l went with
Wampa through the earth and came to
it's surface near the Polar region. In
going thence to the Pole l saw five men
with six dogs running after white
bear. And some distance ahead Of
them 1 saw two men with three dogs,
running after q small bear cub. The
five men had spears and knives and the
two men spears. The people were of
short stature and roundish face. All of
them wore bearskins except one, who
wore a sealskin. The skins covered
their whole body, including the hands,
feet and part of the face. The dogs
seemed to be about the size Of or little
larger than the English bulldog. Their
hair was shaggy. The large bear was
bleeding from previous wound. Wam-
pa asked me to go up and put my finger
on the bears head back of its ear. l
did. 1t felt a little soft, somewhat like
our temples. Wampa said, "Tbat in
order to kill the white bear that is the
surest spot to hit" Almost immedi-
ately afterward one Of the men threw
spear, hit the bear on that spot and
killed it.
Thence with Wampa l traversed an
immense district Of ice, where the ocean
was frozen to half its depth. Occasion
ally I heard under my feet loud reports
from the cracking ice After time the
ice disappeared, and water for about ten
miles took it's place. l then reached
the Pole, and found it to be an island
Of billy form, having a gradual rise
from the waters edge to about the mid
die of it. To me it seemed to be about
five or six miles through the center, but
Wampa told me that it was about 100
miles around it.
On some parts of it appear only bare
rocks; on other parts it has abundant
vegetation. About half of it, the east
side, is covered with fruit trees. In
some parts they grow in dense thickets;
in some they do not grow SO close to.
gether, and have grass thickly inter-
spersed among them. The fruit con-
sists of oranges, lemons, bananas, cocoa-
nuts and other tropical fruits, many of
which | have never seen or heard of.
This part of the Pole is inhabited by
beetles, white and black ants, grasshop
pers and many other kinds of insects,
all unusually large; also by many diff
ferent species Of the monkey tribe.
On the west side of the island the
vegetation is not so dense. 1t has many
of the tropical fruits, but the trees are
mostly smaller, and large part of it is
covered with grass and shrubs On this
side are also found some fruits which
are native Of the temperate zone. There
you find the gooseberry, blackberry,
raspberry, grape, currant and mandrake.
Here l found insects as varied and
plentiful as on the east side. But it
differs from the east side in having no
monkeys, and in having vast number of
birds of every size and plumage. Among
them are the ostrich, swan, duck, quail,
goose, robin and humming bird.
On both sides are many small streams.
The water Of these is pure and clear as
crystal. The temperature Of both sides
is warm 1t does not vary. Here the
crust of the earth is much thinner than
at the equator, and the temperature is
caused not so much by the sun as by
the heat coming out Of the earth.
In the region around the Pole and be-
yond the water Immediately around it
the cold is so intense that human beings
could not endure it. Therefore no man
has ever reached the Pole. Neither,
unless there be change in the temper
AZURE Of the earth, can he ever reach it.