The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-13

Perry came to us, yet the Korsars
appear to have known Of them and
used them always"
Il have an idea" said David; yet
it is such mad idea that al
most have hesitated to entertain
it, much less to express it."
What is it?" asked Tanar.
1T was suggested to me in my
conversations with the Korsars
themselves replied the Emperor
Without exception they have all
assured me that their ancestors
came from another world-a world
above which The sun did not stand
perpetually at zenith, but crossed
the heavens regularly, leaving the
world in darkness half the time.
They say that part of this
world is very cold and that their
ancestors, who we're seafaring men.
became caught with their ships in
the frozen waters; that their COM
passes turned in all directions and
became useless to them, and that
when finally they broke through
the ice and sailed away in the di-
rection that they thought was
south, they came into Pellucidar,
which they found inhabited only by
naked savages an dwild beasts.
And here they set up their city
and built new ships. They in
termarried with the natives, which
in this part of Pellucidar seem to
have been Of a very low order. -
David paused.
We'll" asked Tanar, what does
it all mean?"
"It means" said David, that If
their legend is true, or based upon
fact, that their ancestors came from
the same outer world from which
Perry and 1 came, but by what
avenue?-that is the astounding
enigma"
Many times during their incar-
ceration the three men discussed
this subject, but never were they
able to arrive at any definite solu-
ton Of the mystery. Food was
brought to them many times and
several times they slept before Kor-
sar soldiers came and took them
from the dungeon.
Il
THEY were led to the palace OIL
Il The Cid, the architecture Of
which but tended to increase the
mystery of the origin of this strange
race in the mind of David Innes
for the building seemed to show in
disputable proof of Moorish in
f1uence.
Within the palace they were con
Quoted to large room, comfortably
filled with the whiskered Korsars
locked out in their gaudiest
raim9nt. Upon a dais, at one end
Of the room, a man was seated upon
a large, ornately carved chair. It
was The Cid, and as David's eyes
fell upon him, his mind suddenly
grasped, for the first time, a signifi-
can't suggestion in the title of the
ruler of the Korsars.
Previously the name had been
only a name to David. He had not
considered it as title; nor had it
by association awakened any par
ticular train of thought, but now,
coupled with the Moorish palace
and the carved throne, it did.
The Cid! Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
Ell Campbeador-a national hero OF
eleventh-century Spain. What did
it mean? His thoughts reverted to
the ships of the Korsars-their
motley crews with arquebuses and
cutlasses-and he recalled the
thrilling stories of the Spanish
Main.
Could it be merely coincidence?
Could a nation of people have
grown up within the inner world
who so closely resembled the
buccaneers of the seventeenth
century, or had their forebearS in
truth found their way hither from
the outer crust?
ITO Be COntinued)
(Copyright, 1884, by. METROPOLITAN News