Dismantling the dirigible-ship Monarch & the submarine Porpoise, our crew constructs from the combined parts the Flying Mermaid which is both airship & submarine. They leave their home in Maine & head for a region of the South Polar sea where they previously found an opening into the Hollow Earth & fly right in. Deep below the earth they discover a lost race of giants & experience a tremendous lot of adventures involving a murderous plant, weird animals, & a subterranean temple of treasure. Using parts taken from the dirigible-ship Monarch and the submarine Dolphin our crew constructs the Flying Mermaid, an airship-submarine! They take their new vehicle to the South Polar sea and discover an entrance in the Hollow Earth, where they find a lost race of giants, murderous plants, weird animals, and a temple full of treasure...

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Five Thousand Miles Underground
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- Title
- Chapter 1 - WASHINGTON BACKS OUT
- Chapter 2 - THE FLYING MERMAID
- Chapter 3 - WASHINGTON DECIDES
- Chapter 4 - WHAT DID MARK SEE?
- Chapter 5 - ATTACKED BY A WHALE
- Chapter 6 - THE CYCLONE
- Chapter 7 - A QUEER SAIL
- Chapter 8 - THE FLYING MERMAID DISABLED
- Chapter 9 - THE MUTINY
- Chapter 10 - FOOLING THEIR ENEMIES
- Chapter 11 - MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS
- Chapter 12 - THE BIG HOLE
- Chapter 13 - DOWN INTO THE EARTH
- Chapter 14 - MANY MILES BELOW
- Chapter 15 - IN THE STRANGE DRAUGHT
- Chapter 16 - THE NEW LAND
- Chapter 17 - A STRANGE COUNTRY
- Chapter 18 - CAUGHT BY A STRANGE PLANT
- Chapter 19 - THE BIG PEACH
- Chapter 20 - OVERHAULING THE SHIP
- Chapter 21 - THE FISH THAT WALKED
- Chapter 22 - THE SNAKE-TREE
- Chapter 23 - THE DESERTED VILLAGE
- Chapter 24 - THE GIANTS
- Chapter 25 - HELD BY THE ENEMY
- Chapter 26 - A FRIEND INDEED
- Chapter 27 - A GREAT JOURNEY
- Chapter 28 - THE TEMPLE OF TREASURE
- Chapter 29 - BACK HOME— CONCLUSION
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