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above, at the edge of the crater, the explorers found the remains of another bird. Could a storm carry birds as high as the top of the crater? Perhaps, like the glove, it was brought there by some mountain-climber long ago, Or perhaps the bird and the glove once lay on top of the crater ice, until snow covered them and the heat of the crater melted the ice, allowing both objects to slowly sink into the depths, covered with new layers of snow and ice. This may well be the case.

   However, no one doubts that Mount Rainier still contains many secrets and that there may be other explanations for the presence of the glove and the bird.

   Still another mystery of Mount Rainier is the question of what happens to all the water that continually streams into the depths of the crater.

 

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#4 --- Mount Shasta, in the northernmost part of California, has been a center of mystery for many students of 'metaphysics'. The mountain is an extinct volcano and is the source of several Indian legends in the area. The following account can be found on pages 257-258 of "A DWELLER ON TWO PLANETS" by Phylos (the Thibetan).  A similar account can be found in "AN EARTH DWELLERS RETURN", by the same:

   "Beside a roaring, dashing mountain torrent, falling in myriad cascades of foam white as the drifted snow, interspersed with pools of quiet water... deep, trout-filled, blue, reflecting flowery banks and towering pine-crested ridges, "ribs of the planet"... we pause. The day is hot, but the waters of the branch of McCloud river are cold as the pristine snows of Shasta from which they flow to our feet and thence away. 

   We recline on the brink of a deep blue crystal pool,