Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 21 -- Boys Club Singles
Mamelons & Ungava, A Legend of the Saguenay (1890) by W.H.H. Murray tells of subterranean
Atlantilian army of the dead.
So the two boats went through the lovely lakes, floating slowly down the flowing rivers without
hap or hazard, until they came to the last portage, whose gloomy tide flows out of death and
into bright life at Mamelons.
We like "The Skeleton Island, or A Cruise in
an Underground River" by Roger Starbuck in
The Five Cent Wide Awake Library, Issue
1054 (1891), not as much for the story, as for
the magazine name.
From its name, Golden Days for Boys and
Girls wasn't exclusively for Boys Clubs,
though our example has that ring.
From "The Mutiny on Board of the Sea Eagle,
or the Adventures of a Homeless Boy" by
Ralph Hamilton, November 12, 1892,
The entrance to this odd underground water-way was not more than four feet in height by six
wide, but he unhesitatingly entered the narrow channel, bent upon seeing what there was of it
and where it led to.
Drawing a long breath of surprise and satisfaction, he ceased rowing, and, as the boat came to
a stand-still on the glassy surface of this subterranean sea, he uttered an exclamation of
wonder, and looked around him in a maze of doubt and admiration.
In Ingersoll Lockwood's satirical Trump's Marvelous
Underground Journey (1893), an opening in the earth conveys
Trump into the interior where he meets the Transparent Folk and
the Rattlebrains.
Note the ease of fishing on the glassy river.
From now on Lord Bulger and I made ourselves perfectly at
home among the Mikkamenkies. One of the royal barges was
placed at our disposal, and when we grew tired of walking
about and gazing at the wonders of this beautiful city of the
under world, we stepped aboard our barge and were rowed
hither and thither on the glassy river; and if I had not seen it
myself I never would have believed that any kind of shellfish
could ever be taught to be so obliging as to swim to the
surface and offer one of their huge claws for our dinner,
politely dropping it in our hand the moment we had laid hold of
it.
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