INTRODUCTION:
This descrption of the great war, and its following results, is perhaps the greatest ever written by an author, on the line of any fabolus war, that could ever be intitled, with such a name,.The war lasted about Four years and seven months in this story,, and the author of this book has taken over eleven years in writing out the long and graphic details, and has fought on fron day, to day, in order to win for the christ ian s side this long and bloody war, and though the christ ians had been threatened with defeat, on account of a strange Aronburg mystery which could not be solved by any one, not even myself, they finally won when they turned the tide against the enemy at the frightful battle of Aronburgs Run.
The Aronburg mystery as well as the murder of the Aronburg child, had threatened the doom of the three christian states, for the whole length of the great Glando Angelinian war, and it was predicted that the solving of the Aronburg mystery or for the revenge of her assassins,' was the only hope for any chance of the christian nation winning the war. Abbieannia managed to crush Glandelinia herself, after Claverinia had been ruined, and almost destroyed, and Angelinian nation almost wiped out in her armies.
By Henry Joseph Darger.
The author of thrilling story.
The scenes of this story as its title indicates, lies among the nations of an unknown or imaginary world or countries; with our earth as their moon though there are two big islands belonging to Glandelinia that well for the shapes of our lands. The names of these nations are Angelinia, Abyssinkile, Protestentia, and Abbieannia four great Catholic nations, there being no protestant nations.Other Catholic nations but rivals of Glandelinia also are, Mormonia, Hickenile, Hickenchile,, Condonnoncia, Glanina, Spoonnia, Croetoria, Madorria, Claresinia, and Pruetinia.
Next to Abbeiannia Glandelinia is the most powerful of them all, and three quarters of the population are as wicked as wickedness can be. There are scores of other nations, but their names are not given. The two nationas Glandelinia and Abbieannia, alone have in this story hundreds of thrillions of men, many thrillions of women, and children. The namew of the Oceans are the same as the nations,,,,,.
THIS imaginary planet is a thousand times as large as out own world and the largest body of water known as the Angelinia sease, could hold scores of our own worlds, and still have room.
Its near neighbor and the next largest ocean called the Mc-Whirthian sea, but which is the Protestentian Ocean, on account of its heat waves sweeping into the cool Angelinian seas, and drawing down upon its waters the colde atmosphers of the Calverinian winters, is a most dangerous and fatal oceans, for typhoons which arry all before them, even in swooping the land, occur so frequently that no one dares travel on it during the typhoon seasons. The Angelinian seas also have frequently severe typhoons which havocs every thing in an instant. Governer Hanson, and his brother Gover Robert ANglic Vivian, with their two wives, brothers and the little Vivian Girls, are the main ones related in this story.The beaut iful children are so pretty that it could never be described.Before and during the war as we will see as we proceed, these brave little gigls passed through indescriable horrors, , but their imprisonment at Calverine and Andrean, was the worse suffering which they experienced before the out break of the great war.
In this story for more than fourty three years, child slavery existed in the Calverinian country.HUndreds of thousands of children, torn frm their parents were thrown into the horrible factories, made to work themselves to death without getting a cent, and horrors upon horrors almost equaled that of perdition. Abbieannia made four attempts to break this evil, in waging four wars with Glandelinia and though successful in the war did not completely stamp out this dreadful canker eating at the heart of the wicked nation. Before the Glandco-Angelinian war broke out Abbieannia had threatened to strike down the Glandelinian a nation with one deliberate war, but other nations mediated untill the danger of struggling with the foe was averted for only two weeks and then bang, bang, as Angelinia drove in herself despite all mediators.
The fifth war, the War of 1841 was so successful for Abbieannia, that she succeeded in freeing the Calverinian nation from the powers of Glandelinia, but failed to have the desired effects of the child slave horrors. Smaller nations not named had been overthrown by Glandelinia, millions of children alone had been carried off, and for fourty years, the poor children had lain blound and bleeding in these Glandelinian child slave prisons of horror, imploring for help from bondage seemingly in vain. No slavery had been as cruel and shocking as this, and Angelinia herself looked on in horror, but as long as Hanson or his brother did not make anymove that threatened war with Glandelinia, nothing could be done.
During the bloodiest war of eighteen fourty three, the Calverinian country succeeded to Angelinia, and Abbieannia, which led to the destruction of the ship loaded with children, and the Kings Wife and daughter and which caused the Kings death when he heard the news. At the same time Abyssinkile had desired to make a junction with ANgelinia, and at this news Glandelinia went mad, and struck a blow against Abyssinkile, but Abbieannia in the war of eighteen fourty one put a stop to her folly.
Only two years later after the great war was over, the child slavery which had only slackened, only was renewed and expanded so rapidly that the Zimmermannia councils rushed orders for the crushing of that worse of evils and so war was declared, and Calverinia invaded, the foe driven out, and their own couj try invaded by the Abbieannians, and the wicked nation brought to her knees. Some of the most terrible things in the first part of the story are the ravages caused by the Glandco-Angelinian war, and by typhoons of great and destructive force. Great heat waves moving northward cross the Calverinian country, and also the cool Angelinian seas, and as it sweeps into the atmosphere of the Angelinian seas, the hot tropical sun causes the lower layers of air to expand, while lifting the upper layers like a great gaseous sheet at the same time. The lifted gas then spreads uniformly, out-ward in all directions, this causing the heated area to become one of low pressure, while the surrounding area has its pressure increased.
An ascent of air from an limited area causes an uprush which forces a local chimney through the upper st ratum it contains, becomes condensed thus liberating as heat, a large amount of energy, which had been previously stored up in the process of evaporation. In turn this still rarifies the ascending current so that the draught is strengthened. Warn vapor laden air blows in from all sides at the bottom to supply the partial vacuum, and the current in meeting at the center and rush past one another produce a whirling motion, which is increased by the additional new volumes of light air, which is condensed into clouds. These spread outward in the upper regions, and the central area becomes quickly through some mysterious cause one immense suction, which increases in violence, the motion, becoming more spirial, being now more than overcome, by suction into the great roaring vortex. Motion around the center v developes a stronger vacuum with the greatest violence in its immense stem of thousand mile funnel, which the layers of clouds spread far from the whirling storm brings upon the region not struck by the cyclonic wind, fearful cloud bursts and floods, which committs almost as severe damage. This is the formation of the typhoons that sweeps the Mc-Whirthian seas in particular and which tear their way into the Calverinian seas, and commit so much damage to the cities and towns, and forests along the shores of Abbieannia and Angelinia. Motion of this kind is called gyratory motion.
The wind of the worse of these typhoons blow at a rate too high to be measured, but certainly one hundred times the velocity of the wildest tornadoes. The violnce of the vortex prostrates, and sweeps away whole forests, and devastates the strongest cirites, raising waves on the Angelinian, Calverinian, and Mc-Whirthian seas that overwhelm the largest ships, and at times swamps low islands. On the advancing side of the typhoons which are the wildest there is very little rain or hail, but as the storm sweeps over the shore, and land, the rain falls in blinding torrential sheets like torrtents which are driven horrizontally by the wind and broken into blinding spray, so that objects become invisible at a distant of thirty feet.Typhoons which threaten the Calvarinian coast, in winter, but which. fortunately pass off many times, are nevertheless attended with the most blinding blizzard and snowstorms that could ever be described. Calverinian summers are long, and Calverinian winters are long. The winter is extremely cold at times, and mild at other times, but in all cases no winter passes without fourty great snowstorms every winter. Summer is so scourching that millions of people unused to such climate move up to the nortnh or into the Anglinian country to get away from the terrific heat.
The typhoons which traversed the Mc-Whirthian seas are defined as immense tornados of exceeding great violence, in which unlike the tornado the area covered by the whirl is too large for the gryation to be always determined by deflection due to their earths rotation. Different from the tornado in size, but nevertheless travel an ernomous distance despite the resistance it encounters from the surrounding air and the earth. The direction of its progress is genearlly northeastward, and the gyration motion is opposite to the motion of the hands of a watch.
It is hard to determine when the typhoon forms but they are known to show their terrifying appearance in the afternoons or evenings, though more occasionally during the typhoon seasons, and more frequently in the Mc-Wihirthian seas than the cold Northern seas. There are some storms called Angelinian hurricanes, which exceed over ten thousand miles in circumference, while the path of the whole typhoon storm outside of it whirling destructive motion is nearly twelve thousand miles, its greatest force being the extent of one thousand,, and its greatest vacuum one hundred miles. The centrifugal force developed in gyration so close to the axis is too enormous to be real, and the diminution of the atmospheric pressure at the main center is such as to create a wild vacuum whose tremendous roar could be heard for two hours before the wind strikes.
Hence when a typhoon of this sort passes over a city, the sudden expension and onrush of air tears the houses to fragments in a very short time.
The whirling mass of air around the extensive axis moves solid masses many thousands of tons in weight, and scatters town like chaff on either side of its path. The general formation of these typhoons are lie the tornadoes but more quicker. Dark clouds meet from opposite sides of the sky in a head long rush. Gyratory motion is established and warm air is drawn up into the vortex from below, while an ascending twisting column of air spreads out spirially as it joins the clouds above, but as the storm progresses forward, and grows larger, the cone shape cloud gets so large that it cannot be distinguished as the form of a dark whirling funnel and as the motion increases in vocal, and violence, nearly the entire funnel decends untillit sweeps the sea.The column when full grown has a progressive motion that varies from fifteen hundred to sixteen hundred miles in three hours but does not rise or decend at intervals like the American tornado, but sweeps on like the hurricane, while the rushing of the wildly conflicting elements produce a loud roaring sound, that can be heard at the distance of fofty miles before it strikes.
There are also peculiar typhoons, which are generally nicknamed the peevish typhoons.These blow in different varies than the gyratoral typhoons lasting only a breif time. One varity is somewhat like a terrific hurricane in its raging fury, tgese storms occuring any time of the year, having no generalseasons whatever, but they are more frequently raging in March, April, May , June to December. From March to May they evorde their force and become gyratoral, their fore-lasting but a very few hours carrying all before them like the typhoon at Jennie Wren Town before the great battle there. In the month s of June to December, they have a center like the hurricane, but during the other mo.ths when they become more violent their center is but a few rods in width and so rage like the tornado carrying all before them. In this period their fury is unaccountable and their force is the greatest at the beginning.Their approach is similar to that of a thunderstorm but the clouds are more freakish and more denser, and the storm occasionally displays whirling funnels.They are generally mistaken as hurricans, but the Angelinian hurricanes are very slight, and only wreck weak structures. Typhoons of these kind are considered as violent gyratorals which may have lost its greater force as they generally strike the Calvorinian shores and Angolinian coast in the east.Of the main descrption concerning the so-called poorish typhoons is well to be related. They are really of different varities, and many varities. One general varity known as the Spirian Tearian has three varities. One varity which is temporarily mild in fury occurs only in the months of July and August and this is the first varity which blows in a similar way like the hurricane but are far more violent and not quite so long. These hurrican like storms are not so long, but the worse kind which are described during and before the war are worth noting. One of the most noted is the terific typhoon at Jennie Wren Town before the battle occured there. Never have these storms got anything called lulls.
The frst storm in chapter one was also one of these kind, and the great typhoon that shipwrecked governer Hanson and the rest at Calverine was one of these storms, and another tore the city of Evangelistia sometime before the Glandco-Angelinian war, and one that swept the Angolinian coast late in the Summer season of eighteen seventy two.The most violent of these had swept Jennie Wren Town and other cities, and another great one occured during the later Easter Season of Eighteen Fourty. There are three reasons why these typhoons get such names. As they are gy ratoral in motion all three of the varities are exceedingly violent and vehement in force, and make such an indescriably clamor that nothing else can be heard.
The second reason is because they make such an angry roar in its approach. The third reason is because of its sudden outburst. The first varitiez are generally called hurricanes by the Angolinians though that is not their proper name. THeir character is notably different, their force much greater, and their approach swift and clamourious like the tornado.
At the advancing side of these typhoons the thunder lightning and rainfall is peculiarly violent, but at the rear portions of the storm the rainfall is very violent though there is very little thunder and lightning and floods usually follow. These storms generally occur in the typhoon seasons which is the month of September, to April and May, though they have been known to appear in the other months as well.But in the months named they are unusually, and frequently more violent than ever imagined.
The first varity is generally called the Sirocannian Typhoon. The second varity generally occurs from the month of October to April, but are more frequent in Ovtober, than in any of the other months. Their velocity is never accurately known.They are exceedingly destructive and extremely wild, the Salablanian typhoons a good deal being its resemblance.
They advance like the torndo making a roar heard for miles in its approach.The rush of the conflicting elements is something terrific, the violence of the wind carrying all before it. THe thunder and lightning is similarly violent throughout the whole storm, and make raging floods. This storm is generally called the Spirian Tearian typhoon.The Third varity is in the form like the tornado.But however they are the wildest. The force of such a storm cannot be described. They are completely gyratoral in motion, and advance in a more straight course than the other two varities. Their duration is seldon more than two hours and their velocity is generally unaccountable, moving at a rate contrary to its tremendous whirling velocity. Their fury at times can change the region swept by them into a general wind hell, and terrific are the circumstance that follow in its wake.By the Angelinians they are called the Demonedanian TYPHOONS! by the Abbieannians the Salaballanian Tornardoes.
Jennie Wren Town was predicted struck by one of these during the last day of March Eighteen Fourt y One, which slew three hundred thousand people, and destroyed property valued at three hundred million dollar alone in that city, and its surrounding districts.' It gave not the slightest warning, and its roar was only heard when within grasp of the already doomed city. Hundreds of towns and cities were wrecked the coast on the Island of Hickencilo, and the main land of Calverinian suffering the greatest, as there incapable damange was done for the distance of two thousand five hundred miles, and cities and towns by hundreds were demolished beyond repair.
Its rate was never known though many believed that it traveled thirty three thousand six hundred miles in fourteen hours.This was much disputed.It took nearly fourty years to repair the damage done, and worse of all it tore across a good portion of Abbieannia committing damage that was not repaired yet as far as the Glandco Angelinian war itself. It tore across a portion of Abbieannia and Concentinian country at the same time it being Easter Sunder of Eighteen Fourty one, where it destroyed three hundred billions of dollar worth of property, and killing and wounding three million people. This is one of the first greatest calamities that occured before she barelt recovered from the other disaster. its origon was considered as gyratoral like the Abbieannian storm of August the Thrid, but its velocity was never learned also. In the Abbieannian state Tripoligonlia which had been swept along its eastern coast, hundreds of tow s and cities were completely wrecked and destroyed, and the death list was considered as nine hundred thousnad. This disaster also occured on an Easter Sunday. Two months after the disaster it was found that seven million people had lost their lives in those three Abbieannian states.
Abbieannai had been the scene of many terrific typhoons, but the greatest one occuring on Easter Sunday in eighteen Eighty nine caused the greatest damage. Concentinia wasthe center of all the woeful misery and distress, it being stated that seven thousand cities towns, villiages had been destroyed in this nation along the eastern coast. This was only the second time that Abbieanniahad suffered such a visitation for a similar typhoon of Eighteen eighty nine but in the fall, had occured along the western coast which killed nine million people and destroyedsix thousand cities and towns. Recently violent Terrocian Typhoons that had been vastly destructive to property and lives in addition of that in Abbieannia occured two years before the Angolinia Agathia disaster while the whole Mc-Whirthian sea was in a very cyclonic condition!One was the typhoon of June 23th which swept southern Domdobia and Tripolingolia, and crossing the innermost coast of Calverinia,killing about three million, three hundred thousand people, and destroying two hundred cities, and hundreds of villiages and large towns.
Another in August of the same year which tore across the coast of Protestent ia killing five hundred thousand,, and destroying three hundred towns and cities. Again the whole of Protestentia was swept the year later in the same month, by a gyratoral typhoon of the Thrid varity, which destroyed five million people, and caused so much damage that Abbieannia and other nations had to go to the aid of the severely smiten nation. Mormonuia the same month was swept by a hellish Terrocian typhoon which tore across her southern and western coast and screaming like a sea filled with demons, destroying thousands of cities, and towns, and prostrating whole forests, witha loss of life that was unaccountable, or never accurately estimated, though sixteen million, and thirty million injured had been extracted within two weeks after the frightful disaster
How many dead there were was never known though 11,899,888 were found within the two weeks. The force of the storm prostrated millions of trees, a thousand feet high, and fourteen hundred feet in circumferences, and rasied waves along the coast that swept fourteen miles insland. The next year the year of Angelinia Agathias disaster in the month of March Hickencile was again visited by a strange and most peculiar typhoon never listed among the named storms of such varities ever known. But though a strange storm, its force was something terrible, and made an unsolved toll of lives and property loss of sixty million dollars. The cause of such a kind of typhoons are never known though it is stated that the eastern Mc-Whirthian seas may be responsible on account of the hot atmosphere over its surface.
South or northely winds from the Angelinian seas west of Hickencile generally drive these extensive hot waves across the eastern Mc-Whirthian seas with great speed, whose opposing currents of winds from the cooler Calverinian seas, and from the winter regions of Calverinia and Angelinia generally starts these terrific and destructive storms which travels northeastward and annihilates all before it. These strange and terrific typhoons generally form in the extreme southern regions seventy thousand miles southwest of the group of the great Blengiglomenean islands, and some of the fiercest further south or north also crossing the regions of Abbieannia and Concentinian shores. There are eight others of the Spirian Tearian typhoons. Snobannin typhoons of mild force called gales, which move in any course, and do little or no damage. They probably form at small distances and have a short way totravel, and do not have much force.Their velocity is about eighty miles an hour at its worse. The Werranian Typhoons traveling across the southern and middle regions of the Mc-Whirthian seas seldom hit the shores, and to the great fortune of the nations at that. They have four varities, Spirial, Gyratoral, Demonodanian and Spiritan Tearian.
The last two as previously mentioned are wild and dangerous, and woe to the nations afflicted by them. The Spirian Tearian and Demondeninaiana are much alike in their force, but the Spirian Tearian at times exceeds them all. The third varity is called a Sucannenian much like the Yellow death theat struck in Hinkencile. Their path is one thousand miles, and their force is gradual but dangeous. Theyare much dreaded by the sailors, but these storms nevertheless seldom hit the shores of the main land. If they did people would have to live in caves and not built houses. The fourth varity sweepts in the region called the Devils Blow Hole and are called the Banbobocian Typhoon. They are real Ferrocians too but of four days duration, and these wind storms known as the black death generally become a Spirian Tearian.They are very extensive their distance being far howeber so far that they have never been known to hit the shore. But the hellish destruction witnessed by sailors on islands, and by the inhibitatnts give reason for these storms to be dreaded. They are the longest storms for their duration, and are the wildest typhoons known, and no tornado can ever equal their speed or violence.
The fifth varity much like the fourth though still , longer in duration are not much dreaded asthey never hit the land or shore line, but they are feared by the sailors, and no ships sail out duri g the season of for these storms. They are called the Lin/lenian typhoon. The sixth varity also much alike the Fourth is called the Milldirian Typhoon. Their volicity is not known but nevertheless they call carty all before it. Their path is often five hundred miles wind. Chamberlane and Ophelia got one of these during the month of December on the first day. Their onrush is mot swift and terrific, and comes without the slightest warning despite the deafening clamor in its approach. The seventh varity is called the Cirtthroceniann Typhoon. Their cause is very mysterious but their character is much like the Spirian Tearian though of longer duration generally raging for three to fi ve days. They are peculiar typhoons and are similar to the fourth varity as their pproach is marked by intense blackness of clouds marked at intervals by tre,e tremendous lurid lghts known as typhoon lights. Their occurance is very rage rare along the coast, but freqnwt out at sea, and form only when the heat waves of are of a years duration. Their formations are generally at the devils blow hole and their path is often eleven thousand miles and their regular force is unknown.They alone do not start with gradual fury. They may be insedious Spirian Tearian Typhoons of exceedingly great violenceas as they are clamorous in their approach. They approach frequently on a hot after noon in all months of the summer. Here are the greatest typhoons listed.