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The Lost Continent By Edgar Rice Burroughs Chapter one Since earliest childhood, I have been strangely fascinated by the mystery surrounding the history of the last days of 20th century Europe. My interest is keenness, perhaps not so much in relation to known facts as to speculation upon the unknowable of the two centuries that have rolled by since human intercourse between the Western and eastern hemispheres ceased. The mystery of Europe state following the termination of the Great War provided, of course, that the worId been terminated from out of them Eagerness of our censored histories. We learn that for 15 years after the cessation of diplomatic relations between the United States of North America and the belligerent nations of the Old World, news of more or less doubtful authenticity filtered from time to time into the Western Hemisphere from the eastern. Then came the fruition of that historic propaganda, which is best described by its own slogan. The East for the East, the West for the West and all further intercourse was stopped by statute. Even prior to this, transoceanic commerce had practically ceased, owing to the perils and hazards of the mind strewn waters of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans just when submarine activities ended, We do not know. But the last vessel of this type cited by a Pan American merchant man was a huge Q 1 38 which discharged 29 tour Speedos at a Brazilian tank steamer off the Bermudas in the fall of 1972. Ah, heavy sea and the excellent seamanship of the master of the Brazilian permitted the Pan American to escape and report this last of a long series of outrages of Palin. Our commerce God alone knows how many hundreds of our ancient ships fell and men that passed over our eastern and Western horizons never to return. But whether they met their fates before the belching tubes of submarines or among the aimlessly drifting minefields, no man lived to tell. And then came the great Pan American Federation, which linked the Western Hemisphere from polled poll under a single flag which joined navies of the New World into the mightiest fighting force that ever sailed the seven seas, the greatest argument for peace the world had ever known. Since that day, peace had reigned from the western shores of the is ores to the Western shores of the Hawaiian Islands. Nor has any man of either hemisphere dared cross 30 D West for 1 75 d West 30 de toe, 1 75 Dia's hours from 30 de toe, 1 75 d is peace, prosperity and happiness. Beyond was the great unknown. Even the geography ease of my boyhood showed nothing beyond. We were taught of nothing beyond speculation was discouraged. For 200 years, the Eastern Hemisphere had been wiped from the maps and histories of Pan America. It's mentioned in fiction, even was forbidden. Our ships of Peace Patrol 30 and 175. What ships from Beyond. They have warned on Lee the secret archives of government show, but a naval officer myself. I have gathered from the traditions of the service that it has been fully 200 years since smoke or sale has been signaled east of 30 D or west of 1 75 d. The fate of the relinquished provinces which lay beyond the deadlines. We could only speculate upon that they were taken by the military power which rose so suddenly in China after the fall of the republic, which rested Manchuria on career from Russia and Japan and also absorbed the Philippines, is quite within the range of possibility