
The guide brings them to a river that has evidence of red and blue dye that the guide claims is coming from the land of women. Their guide tells them that there is a mysterious country hidden in the wilderness that is comprised entirely of women and their daughters, with no men or boys however, all the native men who have tried to find the land disappear without a trace. Nicholson, and Jeff Margrave are on an expedition unrelated to Herland. Van writes that the real adventure begins when he, Terry O.

Van states that he is going to do his best to describe the country without his old notes because the world needs to know what life there is like.

Vandyck “Van” Jennings says that the following events are written from his own memories, since he lost the detailed notebooks and pictures taken in Herland itself.
