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Beasts, Men and Gods Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski Beasts, Men and Gods Table of Contents Beasts, Men and Gods...............................................................................................................................................1 Ferdinand Ossendowski.................................................................................................................................1 EXPLANATORY NOTE..............................................................................................................................1 Part I. DRAWING LOTS WITH DEATH.....................................................................................................1 CHAPTER I. INTO THE FORESTS.............................................................................................................1 CHAPTER II. THE SECRET OF MY FELLOW TRAVELER...................................................................3 CHAPTER III. THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE...............................................................................................6 CHAPTER IV. A FISHERMAN...................................................................................................................7 CHAPTER V. A DANGEROUS NEIGHBOR.............................................................................................8 CHAPTER VI. A RIVER IN TRAVAIL.......................................................................................................9 CHAPTER VII. THROUGH SOVIET SIBERIA........................................................................................10 CHAPTER VIII. THREE DAYS ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE.......................................................11 CHAPTER IX. TO THE SAYANS AND SAFETY...................................................................................13 CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE ON THE SEYBI.........................................................................................17 CHAPTER XI. THE BARRIER OF RED PARTISANS............................................................................20 CHAPTER XII. IN THE COUNTRY OF ETERNAL PEACE...................................................................21 CHAPTER XIII. MYSTERIES, MIRACLES AND A NEW FIGHT.........................................................25 CHAPTER XIV. THE RIVER OF THE DEVIL.........................................................................................27 CHAPTER XV. THE MARCH OF GHOSTS.............................................................................................29 CHAPTER XVI. IN MYSTERIOUS TIBET..............................................................................................31 Part II. THE LAND OF DEMONS..............................................................................................................34 CHAPTER XVII. MYSTERIOUS MONGOLIA........................................................................................34 CHAPTER XVIII. THE MYSTERIOUS LAMA AVENGER...................................................................38 CHAPTER XIX. WILD CHAHARS...........................................................................................................42 CHAPTER XX. THE DEMON OF JAGISSTAI........................................................................................43 CHAPTER XXI. THE NEST OF DEATH..................................................................................................47 CHAPTER XXII. AMONG THE MURDERERS.......................................................................................48 CHAPTER XXIII. ON A VOLCANO........................................................................................................51 CHAPTER XXIV. A BLOODY CHASTISEMENT..................................................................................54 CHAPTER XXV. HARASSING DAYS.....................................................................................................56 CHAPTER XXVI. THE BAND OF WHITE HUNGHUTZES..................................................................60 CHAPTER XXVII. MYSTERY IN A SMALL TEMPLE..........................................................................61 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BREATH OF DEATH......................................................................................63 Part III. THE STRAINING HEART OF ASIA...........................................................................................66 CHAPTER XXIX. ON THE ROAD OF GREAT CONQUERORS...........................................................66 CHAPTER XXX. ARRESTED!..................................................................................................................71 CHAPTER XXXI. TRAVELING BY "URGA".........................................................................................73 CHAPTER XXXII. AN OLD FORTUNE TELLER...................................................................................75 CHAPTER XXXIII. "DEATH FROM THE WHITE MAN WILL STAND BEHIND YOU"...................77 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE HORROR OF WAR!........................................................................................79 CHAPTER XXXV. IN THE CITY OF LIVING GODS, OF 30,000 BUDDHAS AND 60,000 MONKS......................................................................................................................................................81 CHAPTER XXXVI. A SON OF CRUSADERS AND PRIVATEERS......................................................83 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE CAMP OF MARTYRS....................................................................................88 CHAPTER XXXVIII. BEFORE THE FACE OF BUDDHA.....................................................................90 CHAPTER XXXIX. "THE MAN WITH A HEAD LIKE A SADDLE"....................................................94 Part IV. THE LIVING BUDDHA...............................................................................................................96 CHAPTER XL. IN THE BLISSFUL GARDEN OF A THOUSAND JOYS.............................................96 i Beasts, Men and Gods Table of Contents Beasts, Men and Gods CHAPTER XLI. THE DUST OF CENTURIES.........................................................................................99 CHAPTER XLII. THE BOOKS OF MIRACLES.....................................................................................101 CHAPTER XLIII. THE BIRTH OF THE LIVING BUDDHA.................................................................102 CHAPTER XLIV. A PAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT LIVING BUDDHA....................103 CHAPTER XLV. THE VISION OF THE LIVING BUDDHA OF MAY 17, 1921.................................104 Part V. MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES−−THE KING OF THE WORLD.................................................105 CHAPTER XLVI. THE SUBTERRANEAN KINGDOM........................................................................105 CHAPTER XLVII. THE KING OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE FACE OF GOD..............................107 CHAPTER XLVIII. REALITY OR RELIGIOUS FANTASY?...............................................................108 CHAPTER XLIX. THE PROPHECY OF THE KING OF THE WORLD IN 1890.................................109 ii Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski EXPLANATORY NOTE When one of the leading publicists in America, Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, after reading the manuscript of Part I of this volume, characterized the author as "The Robinson Crusoe of the Twentieth Century," he touched the feature of the narrative which is at once most attractive and most dangerous; for the succession of trying and thrilling experiences recorded seems in places too highly colored to be real or, sometimes, even possible in this day and generation. I desire, therefore, to assure the reader at the outset that Dr. Ossendowski is a man of long and diverse experience as a scientist and writer with a training for careful observation which should put the stamp of accuracy and reliability on his chronicle. Only the extraordinary events of these extraordinary times could have thrown one with so many talents back into the surroundings of the "Cave Man" and thus given to us this unusual account of personal adventure, of great human mysteries and of the political and religious motives which are energizing the "Heart of Asia." My share in the work has been to induce Dr. Ossendowski to write his story at this time and to assist him in rendering his experiences into English. LEWIS STANTON PALEN. There are times, men and events about which History alone can record the final judgments; contemporaries and individual observers must only write what they have seen and heard. The very truth demands it. TITUS LIVIUS. Part I. DRAWING LOTS WITH DEATH CHAPTER I. INTO THE FORESTS In the beginning of the year 1920 I happened to be living in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk, situated on the shores of the River Yenisei, that noble stream which is cradled in the sun−bathed mountains of Mongolia to pour its warming life into the Arctic Ocean and to whose mouth Nansen has twice come to open the shortest road for commerce from Europe to the heart of Asia. There in the depths of the still Siberian winter I was suddenly caught up in the whirling storm of mad revolution raging all over Russia, sowing in this peaceful and rich land vengeance, hate, bloodshed and crimes that go unpunished by the law. No one could tell the hour of his fate. The people lived from day to day and left their homes not knowing whether they should return to them or whether they should be dragged from the streets and thrown into the dungeons of that travesty
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