ENDNOTES
Reading edition
“I am the Goddess Sakhmet, and I take my seat upon the side of the great west (wind?) of the skies.” (return)
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Salveter was here referring to the Earl of Carnarvon, Colonel the Honorable Aubrey Herbert, General Sir Lee Stack, George J. Gould, Woolf JoNote 2 · Theogonius was a friend of Simon Magus, who, because of his fear of the Emperor Caligula, pretended imbecility in order to hide his wisdom. Note 3 · Vance of course was referring to the French Fête Nationale which falls on July 14th. (return)Note 4 · This was my guess during Vance’s operation. Later I calculated the weight of the lid. It was ten feet long, four feet wide, and was surmountNote 5 · The actual dedication reads: “I inscribe this book of adventure to my son, Arthur John Rider Haggard, in the hope that in days to come he, aNote 6 · Nor did I. But while this record of mine was running serially in the American Magazine several readers wrote to me pointing out the inconsisNote 7 · It will be recalled that in the Greene murder case the murderer, pretending to be frightened at the sinister danger lurking in the dim corriNote 8 · Vance was here referring to the famous passage in the Chapter—“Das Judentum”—in Otto Weininger’s “Geschlecht und Charakter”: “Der Engländer Note 9 · “Really, now!” Vance smiled slightly. “She is still reclinin’, then, by the side of the great west wind of heaven.[26]… I’m jolly glad to be