“Suddenly I heard the Professor’s voice just as if he were right out there on the desert.”
THE RADIO BOYS
SEEK THE LOST ATLANTIS
By GERALD BRECKENRIDGE
Author of
“The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border,” “The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards,” “The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty,” “The Radio Boys Search for the Inca’s Treasure,” “The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition,” “The Radio Boys in Darkest Africa.”
Frontispiece
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
THE
RADIO BOYS SERIES
A SERIES OF STORIES FOR BOYS OF ALL AGES
By GERALD BRECKENRIDGE
- The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border
- The Radio Boys on Secret Service Duty
- The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards
- The Radio Boys Search for the Inca’s Treasure
- The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition
- The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis
- The Radio Boys In Darkest Africa
Copyright, 1923
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
Made in “U. S. A.”
PREFACE
Dear Boys:
One of the greatest, if not the greatest story ofall the ages, is the legend of Atlantis. Accordingto this legend, there existed at one time a greatcontinent in the Atlantic Ocean not far west of thePillars of Hercules, those two great rocks ofGibraltar in Spain and Jibel Kebir in Moroccowhich guard the entrance to the Mediterranean.
The legend says that this continent was the firstregion in which man rose from barbarism to civilization,and that in the course of ages it becamea populous and mighty nation from whose shoresimmigrants went out to settle the shores of theGulf of Mexico, the valley of the Mississippi, thevalley of the Amazon, the Pacific coast of SouthAmerica, the shores of the Mediterranean, of theBaltic, the Black Sea and the Caspian and the westerncoast of Europe and Africa.
From this continent, continues the legend, thefirst colonists penetrated western Africa clear toEgypt where they took root in the Nile valley anddeveloped what is today conceded to be the earliestknown civilization.
Many other startling statements are made in thislegend. For instance, it is said that the civilizationsof the Incas in Peru and the Mayas in CentralAmerica, like the civilization of Egypt, were derivedfrom Atlantis through immigration; that theAtlanteans were the first manufacturers of iron, andthat the implements of the “Bronze Age” in Europewere derived from them; that the Phoenician alphabet,parents of all European alphabets, was derivedfrom Atlantis, bearing a startling resemblance tothe alphabet of the vanished race of the Mayas inCentral America, whose ancient cities are