ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the text from Chapter II of Ada Reis, Volume III. Ada Reis had read every thing which had ever been recorded of the unknown land to which he was journeying; he had studied the poetry which describes it, and from the learned had gained what information could be obtained in every different country in which he had sojourned. He does not, however, say whether the course he took to reach the palace of Zubanyann, situated in the unhappy valley, was the same that others had taken before him. At the entrance of the Valley of Despair, Death stood before him, in the form of a pale wan woman. She glided by him the moment he alighted. Her breath was so cold, it chilled him as she passed; and her hand, which she offered him, was damp and heavy.
