The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-08-14
VISION OF THE NORTH POLE.
A Child CIairvOyantin in baltimore Sees
and Describes it.

There is Il child clairvoyant in Balti-
more who, it is claimed, besides other
remarkable visions, has had one of the
North Pole. The following is her
statement, as reported in the Balti-
more American July 3d.
| am little girl, not quite eleven
years ofage. | have Il spirit guide, an
Indian chief named Wampa. On or
about the 18th of April, 1880, while
standing at the corner of Saratoga
and Charles streets, Baltimore, Md, |
went with my guide down toward the
centre of the earth. / looked upon the
hot, molten and seething mass form
ing the earth's centre.
Thence went with Wampa through
the earth, and came to its 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 I saw two
other men, with three dogs, running
after a small bear cub. The people
were of short stature and roundish
face. All of them wore bearskins, eX-
cept one, who wore a sealskin. The
skins covered their whole body, in
Guiding the hands, feet and part of
the face.
The dogs seemed to be about the
size of or little larger than the Eng
lish bulldog Their hair was shaggy.
The large bear was bleeding from
previous wound. Wampa asked me to
go and put my finger on the bears
head, back of it's ear. Ibid. 1t felt
little soft, somewhat like our temples.
Wampa said "In order to kill the
white bear that is the surest part to
hit" Almost Immediately afterward
one of the men threw a spear, hit the
bear on that spot and killed it.
Thence with Wampa | traverscd an
immense district of ice, where the |
ocean was frozen to half its depth. |
Occasionally | heard under my feet |
loud reports from the cracking ice. |
After Il time the ice disappeared, and
water for about ten miles took its |
place. | then reached the Pole, and
found it to be an island Of hilly form,
having a gradual rise from the waters
edge to about the middle of it. To me
it seemed to be about five or six miles
through the centre, but Wampa told
me that it is Il hundred miles around
It.
On some parts of il appear only bare
'Ocks on other parts it has an album
lant vegetation. About half of it, the
,ast side is covered with fruit trees.
IN some parts they grow in dense
hickets; IN some they grow not so
lose together, and have grass thickly
among them. The fruit
consists of oranges, lemons, bananas,
,ocOamIts and other tropical fruits,
many of which have never seen nor
leard of. This part of the Pole is in
labited by beetles, white and black
.nts, grasshOppers and many other
,inds of insects, all unusually large
Ilso by many different species of the
monkey tribe.
On the west side of the island the
-egetation is not quite so dense. 1t
Ias many of the tropical fruits, bnt
he trees are mostly smaller, and =
art of il is covered with grass and
hrubs. On this side are also found
ONE fruits which are natives of the
empOrate zone. Among them are
he gooseberry, blackberry, grape, cur {
ant, raspberry and mandrake. Here ,
found insects as varied and plentiful ,
) on the east side. But it differs T,
.om the east side i'm having no mon 4
eys, and i'm having vast numbers OF
irds of every size and plumage.
.mong them are the ostrich, swan,
oose, duck, quail, robin and hum |
ling bird.
On both sides are many small \
reams The water of these is pure {
nd clear as crystal. The temperature I
/ both sides is warm. IL does not C
ary. Here the crust of the earth is y
inch thinner than at the equator, a
nd the temperature is caused not so D
luch by the sun as by the heat com v
" out Of the earth. 4
In the region around the Pole and &
eyond the water Immediately about Z
the cold is 20 intense that human a
,iugs could not endure it, Therefore G
. man has ever reached the Pole. b
either, unless there be a change in r
le temperature Of the earth, can he il
yer reach IL. u