Text: Anonymous, “Mr. Pym's Narrative,” Evening Star (New York, NY), vol. 5, no 271, August 10, 1838, p. 2, col. 2

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MR. PYM'S NARRATIVE. The Messrs. Harper have just published a strange tale of adventure and peril, by sea and land, bearing the name of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket, at its hero. It includes a vivid and appaling [[appalling]] description of a mutiny at sea, on board a whale ship, the subsequent wreck of the vessel and dreadful sufferings of the survivors, their rescue when reduced in number to only two by an English sealing schooner, the wonderful cruise of the latter in the South Atlantic Ocean, approaching within six degrees of the pole, and the still more wonderful adventures and discoveries of Mr. Pym and a single companion, still farther south, after the massacre of all their companions and destruction of the schooner by astonishing savages inhabiting a most astonishing island lying in the 84th parallel of south latitude! What are we to think of it? There is a deal of ingeninus [[ingenious]] mystification about the author's trip, which every one must unravel according to his own fancy. For our part we say nothing; but we think we can see as far into a mil -stone as any body with no more than one pair of eyes to help him. Verb. Sap. Let every man fathom Mr. Pym's secret for himself, say we. He tells some wonderful things, that's certain.