_ CHAPTER XIII. Babbalanja Endeavors To Explain The Mystery
       This Great Mogul of a personage, then; this woundy Aliasuerus; this man of men; this same Hivohitee, whose name rumbled among the mountains like a peal of thunder, had been seen face to face, and taken for naught, but a bearded old hermit, or at best, some equivocal conjuror.
       So great was his wonderment at the time, that Yoomy could not avoid expressing it in words.
       Whereupon thus discoursed Babbalanja:
       "Gentle Yoomy, be not astounded, that Hivohitee is so far behind your previous conceptions. The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike to the substance."
       "But knowing now, what manner of person Hivohitee is," said Yoomy, "much do I long to behold him again."
       But Mohi assured him it was out of the question; that the Pontiff always acted toward strangers as toward him (Yoomy); and that but one dim blink at the eremite was all that mortal could obtain.
       Debarred thus from a second and more satisfactory interview with one, concerning whom his curiosity had been violently aroused, the minstrel again turned to Mohi for enlightenment; especially touching that magnate's Egyptian reception of him in his aerial den.
       Whereto, the chronicler made answer, that the Pontiff affected darkness because he liked it: that he was a ruler of few words, but many deeds; and that, had Yoomy been permitted to tarry longer with him in the pagoda, he would have been privy to many strange attestations of the divinity imputed to him. Voices would have been heard in the air, gossiping with Hivohitee; noises inexplicable proceeding from him; in brief, light would have flashed out of his darkness.
       "But who has seen these things, Mohi?" said Babbalanja, "have you?"
       "Nay."
       "Who then?--Media?--Any one you know?"
       "Nay: but the whole Archipelago has."
       "Thus," exclaimed Babbalanja, "does Mardi, blind though it be in many things, collectively behold the marvels, which one pair of eyes sees not." _

Chapter 1. Maramma
Chapter 2. They Land
Chapter 3. They Pass Through The Woods
Chapter 4. Hivohitee MDCCCXLVIII
Chapter 5. They Visit The Great Morai
Chapter 6. They Discourse Of The Gods Of Mardi...
Chapter 7. They Visit The Lake Of Yammo
Chapter 8. They Meet The Pilgrims At The Temple Of Oro
Chapter 9. They Discourse Of Alma
Chapter 10. Kohl Tells Of One Ravoo...
Chapter 11. A Nursery-Tale Of Babbalanja's
Chapter 12. Landing To Visit Hivohitee The Pontiff...
Chapter 13. Babbalanja Endeavors To Explain The Mystery
Chapter 14. Taji Receives Tidings And Omens
Chapter 15. Dreams
Chapter 16. Media And Babbalanja Discourse
Chapter 17. They Regale Themselves With Their Pipes
Chapter 18. They Visit An Extraordinary Old Antiquary
Chapter 19. They Go Down Into The Catacombs
Chapter 20. Babbalanja Quotes From An Antique Pagan...
Chapter 21. They Visit A Wealthy Old Pauper
Chapter 22. Yoomy Sings Some Odd Verses...
Chapter 23. What Manner Of Men The Tapparians Were
Chapter 24. Their Adventures Upon Landing At Pimminee
Chapter 25. A, I, And O
Chapter 26. A Reception Day At Pimminee
Chapter 27. Babbalanja Falleth Upon Pimminee Tooth And Nail
Chapter 28. Babbalanja Regales The Company With Some Sandwiches
Chapter 29. They Still Remain Upon The Rock
Chapter 30. Behind And Before
Chapter 31. Babbalanja Discourses In The Dark
Chapter 32. My Lord Media Summons Mohi To The Stand
Chapter 33. Wherein Babbalanja And Yoomy Embrace
Chapter 34. Of The Isle Of Diranda
Chapter 35. They Visit The Lords Piko And Hello
Chapter 36. They Attend The Games
Chapter 37. Taji Still Hunted, And Beckoned
Chapter 38. They Embark From Diranda
Chapter 39. Wherein Babbalanja Discourses Of Himself
Chapter 40. Of The Sorcerers In The Isle Of Minda
Chapter 41. Chiefly Of Sing Bello
Chapter 42. Dominora And Vivenza
Chapter 43. They Land At Dominora
Chapter 44. Through Dominora, They Wander After Yillah
Chapter 45. They Behold King Bello's State Canoe
Chapter 46. Wherein Babbalanja Bows Thrice
Chapter 47. Babbalanja Philosophizes, And My Lord Media Passes...
Chapter 48. They Sail Round An Island Without Landing...
Chapter 49. They Draw Nigh To Porpheero...
Chapter 50. Wherein King Media Celebrates The Glories Of Autumn...
Chapter 51. In Which Azzageddi Seems To Use Babbalanja For A Mouth-Piece
Chapter 52. The Charming Yoomy Sings
Chapter 53. They Draw Nigh Unto Land
Chapter 54. They Visit The Great Central Temple Of Vivenza
Chapter 55. Wherein Babbalanja Comments Upon The Speech Of Alanno
Chapter 56. A Scene In Tee Land Of Warwicks, Or King-Makers
Chapter 57. They Hearken Unto A Voice From The Gods
Chapter 58. They Visit The Extreme South Of Vivenza
Chapter 59. They Converse Of The Mollusca, Kings...
Chapter 60. Wherein, That Gallant Gentleman And Demi-God...
Chapter 61. They Round The Stormy Cape Of Capes
Chapter 62. They Encounter Gold-Hunters
Chapter 63. They Seek Through The Isles Of Palms...
Chapter 64. Concentric, Inward, With Mardi's Reef...
Chapter 65. Sailing On
Chapter 66. A Flight Of Nightingales From Yoomy's Mouth
Chapter 67. They Visit One Doxodox
Chapter 68. King Media Dreams
Chapter 69. After A Long Interval, By Night They Are Becalmed
Chapter 70. They Land At Hooloomooloo
Chapter 71. A Book From The "Ponderings Of Old Bardianna"
Chapter 72. Babbalanja Starts To His Feet
Chapter 73. At Last, The Last Mention Is Made Of Old Bardianna...
Chapter 74. A Death-Cloud Sweeps By Them, As They Sail
Chapter 75. They Visit The Palmy King Abrazza
Chapter 76. Some Pleasant, Shady Talk In The Groves...
Chapter 77. They Sup
Chapter 78. They Embark
Chapter 79. Babbalanja At The Full Of The Moon
Chapter 80. Morning
Chapter 81. L'ultima Sera
Chapter 82. They Sail From Night To Day
Chapter 83. They Land
Chapter 84. Babbalanja Relates To Them A Vision
Chapter 85. They Depart From Serenia
Chapter 86. They Meet The Phantoms
Chapter 87. They Draw Nigh To Flozella
Chapter 88. They Land
Chapter 89. They Enter The Bower Of Hautia
Chapter 90. Taji With Hautia
Chapter 91. Mardi Behind: An Ocean Before