Monella

Atkins/Aubrey "contributed widely to the pre-sf Pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana (1896), which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border between Venezuela and the British colony; Monella, the mysterious giant who leads Europeans to their goal, turns out to be the 2000 year old ex-king of all they now survey, and a kind of Wandering Jew. He reappears in the prequel, A Queen of Atlantis: A Romance of the Caribbean (1898), which relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. In King of the Dead: A Weird Romance (1903), almost exactly the same cast of near Immortals under different names replays a very similar story, involving super science and supernaturalism and a Lost Race in the Amazon; eventually the dead are resurrected, to general revulsion." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: "Aubrey, Frank" biographical entry by John Eggeling