Note: From the 1899 book: -- (c) 1898 The Press Publishing Company, New York World; (c) 1899 G. W. Dillingham Co. (title page verso) -- "The story ... in almost in its complete form, as now published, originally appeared in the New York Evening World." (Introduction, p10, footnote)

Synopsis: Lost-Race tale, one of two known among his dime novels, "whose protagonist reaches deep into the Arctic in search of the land of Polaria ... a clement enclave whose citizens, a white-skinned race of ancient lineage, benefit from many Inventions ..." --SFE3