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The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return
The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return
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The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux; Illustrations by Alfred Pearse
CONTENTS
Preface.
Prologue.
Chapter 1. The Blast of the Onbeia.
Chapter 2. Sun and Silence.
Chapter 3. Azala.
Chapter 4. The Mark of the Asps.
Chapter 5. The Black Eunuch.
Chapter 6. Rage and Remorse.
Chapter 7. The White City.
Chapter 8. Veiled Men of the Desert.
Chapter 9. An Audience of the Khalifa.
Chapter 10. By Imperial Request.
Chapter 11. Tiamo the Dwarf.
Chapter 12. Mysteries of Eblis.
Chapter 13. The Prism of Destiny.
Chapter 14. A Sign Afar.
Chapter 15. Tales of the Story-Tellers.
Chapter 16. A Secret of State.
Chapter 17. Flight.
Chapter 18. The Alarm.
Chapter 19. Mohammed El-Arewa.
Chapter 20. The Father of the Blue Hand.
Chapter 21. In the Wilderness.
Chapter 22. Zu, the Bird-God.
Chapter 23. The Forest of Perpetual Night.
Chapter 24. A Pagan Land.
Chapter 25. Avisibba.
Chapter 26. The Ivory Raiders.
Chapter 27. Ngalyema.
Chapter 28. Pigmies of the Forest.
Chapter 29. Facing Malec.
Chapter 30. A Prophecy.
Chapter 31. On the Horizon.
Chapter 32. The Great Sin.
Chapter 33. Where Dwelt the Devourer.
Chapter 34. The Land of the No Return.
Chapter 35. A Visitant from the Mists.
Chapter 36. The Torture-Wheel.
Chapter 37. Ea.
Chapter 38. Istar.
Chapter 39. Foretokens.
Chapter 40. The Festival of Tammuz.
Chapter 41. The Temple of Love.
Chapter 42. Crooked Paths.
Chapter 43. Doom.
Chapter 44. The Talisman.
Chapter 45. Conclusion.
Preface.
PEACE, O READER! Constant, blessed and abundant salutations.
Of a verity the groves of my hopes have been refreshed by cooling showers from the clouds of Allah’s blessing, my rose garden has been weeded of the thorns of despondency, and the tree of my prosperity has become fruit-bearing from the breeze of his bounty. He is the Giver of Gifts, the Source of Liberality, the Sovereign, the dust of whose sandals is deservedly the collyrium of the eyes of mortal men; and I, called by my fellows El-Motardjim, am the servant who, in compliance with the exalted command, have placed my finger of acquiescence on the vision of obedience. During many hopeless nights I waited for the radiation of the sun of the benefits of prosperity, and counted the stars till the rise of dawn, but, by my ill-luck and the machinations of enemies, was deprived of the felicity of penetrating the mystery of the Land Forbidden.
At length, however, on a happy day when the fire of my anguish burned so brightly that it was not easy to extinguish it with the water of patience, the Abolisher of the signs of darkness and aberration invested me with the robe of the favoured, guarded me through the calamities and vicissitudes of fortune during long journeys, directed my footsteps through the mazes of paths untrodden, and revealed unto my dazzled eyes weird and wondrous marvels stranger than men have dreamed.
Therefore, O Reader! wipe the dust of ennui and fatigue from the speculum of thy mind, withdraw the tongue of blame into thy palate, and lend a willing ear to this my Tarik; for, verily, I have elucidated the secret of the mystic Land of the No Return; I have torn the veil that hideth the Great Sin from the eyes of men, and have gazed into the Eye of Istar. “Imsh Allah!”
CONTENTS
Preface.
Prologue.
Chapter 1. The Blast of the Onbeia.
Chapter 2. Sun and Silence.
Chapter 3. Azala.
Chapter 4. The Mark of the Asps.
Chapter 5. The Black Eunuch.
Chapter 6. Rage and Remorse.
Chapter 7. The White City.
Chapter 8. Veiled Men of the Desert.
Chapter 9. An Audience of the Khalifa.
Chapter 10. By Imperial Request.
Chapter 11. Tiamo the Dwarf.
Chapter 12. Mysteries of Eblis.
Chapter 13. The Prism of Destiny.
Chapter 14. A Sign Afar.
Chapter 15. Tales of the Story-Tellers.
Chapter 16. A Secret of State.
Chapter 17. Flight.
Chapter 18. The Alarm.
Chapter 19. Mohammed El-Arewa.
Chapter 20. The Father of the Blue Hand.
Chapter 21. In the Wilderness.
Chapter 22. Zu, the Bird-God.
Chapter 23. The Forest of Perpetual Night.
Chapter 24. A Pagan Land.
Chapter 25. Avisibba.
Chapter 26. The Ivory Raiders.
Chapter 27. Ngalyema.
Chapter 28. Pigmies of the Forest.
Chapter 29. Facing Malec.
Chapter 30. A Prophecy.
Chapter 31. On the Horizon.
Chapter 32. The Great Sin.
Chapter 33. Where Dwelt the Devourer.
Chapter 34. The Land of the No Return.
Chapter 35. A Visitant from the Mists.
Chapter 36. The Torture-Wheel.
Chapter 37. Ea.
Chapter 38. Istar.
Chapter 39. Foretokens.
Chapter 40. The Festival of Tammuz.
Chapter 41. The Temple of Love.
Chapter 42. Crooked Paths.
Chapter 43. Doom.
Chapter 44. The Talisman.
Chapter 45. Conclusion.
Preface.
PEACE, O READER! Constant, blessed and abundant salutations.
Of a verity the groves of my hopes have been refreshed by cooling showers from the clouds of Allah’s blessing, my rose garden has been weeded of the thorns of despondency, and the tree of my prosperity has become fruit-bearing from the breeze of his bounty. He is the Giver of Gifts, the Source of Liberality, the Sovereign, the dust of whose sandals is deservedly the collyrium of the eyes of mortal men; and I, called by my fellows El-Motardjim, am the servant who, in compliance with the exalted command, have placed my finger of acquiescence on the vision of obedience. During many hopeless nights I waited for the radiation of the sun of the benefits of prosperity, and counted the stars till the rise of dawn, but, by my ill-luck and the machinations of enemies, was deprived of the felicity of penetrating the mystery of the Land Forbidden.
At length, however, on a happy day when the fire of my anguish burned so brightly that it was not easy to extinguish it with the water of patience, the Abolisher of the signs of darkness and aberration invested me with the robe of the favoured, guarded me through the calamities and vicissitudes of fortune during long journeys, directed my footsteps through the mazes of paths untrodden, and revealed unto my dazzled eyes weird and wondrous marvels stranger than men have dreamed.
Therefore, O Reader! wipe the dust of ennui and fatigue from the speculum of thy mind, withdraw the tongue of blame into thy palate, and lend a willing ear to this my Tarik; for, verily, I have elucidated the secret of the mystic Land of the No Return; I have torn the veil that hideth the Great Sin from the eyes of men, and have gazed into the Eye of Istar. “Imsh Allah!”