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HERLAND

by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
1860-1935






CHAPTER 1
A Not
Unnatural Enterprise

This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could
have
brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would
be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully
copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the
pictures--that's
the worst loss. We had some bird's-eyes of the cities and parks;
a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and
in, and
some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all,
of
the women themselves.

Nobody will ever believe how they looked. Descriptions
aren't any good when it comes to women, and I never was good
at descriptions anyhow. But it's got to be done somehow; the
rest
of the world needs to know about that country.

I haven't said where it was for fear some self-appointed
missionaries, or traders, or land-greedy expansionists, will
take it
upon themselves to push in. They will not be wanted, I can
tell
them that, and will fare worse than we did if they do find it.

It began this way. There were three of us, classmates and
friends--Terry O. Nicholson (we used to call him the Old Nick,
with good reason), Jeff Margrave, and I, Vandyck Jennings.