Excerpt from The White WaterfallIT IS perhaps inadvisable to mix fact with fiction, but, it appears, some reference to certain portions Of The White Waterfall that might strain the belief of the aver'age reader will not be out of place. In the wonderful islands Of the Pacific many things happen that seem improbable to the minds Of those who dwell close to the heart Of civilization. The mysterious Isle of Tears is not altogether a dream. There are several islands in Polynesia that have been looked upon from time immemorial as islands Of the dead. These places are shunned by the islanders, and the centuries have invested them with the same atmosphere Of brooding mystery that Professor Herndon and his party felt When they landed upon the silent isle where the Wizards of the Centipede performed their weird rites With out interference from the outside world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.