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Black IvoryBlack IvoryIn writing this book, my aim has been to give a true picture in outline of the Slave Trade as it exists at the present time on the east coast of Africa. In order to do this I have selected from the most...
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The Island QueenThe Island QueenEarly one morning, in the year 18 hundred and something, the great Southern Ocean was in one of its calmest moods, insomuch that the cloudlets in the blue vault above were reflected with almost perfect fidelity in the blue hemisphere below, and...
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Hunting the LionsHunting the LionsWe trust, good reader, that it will not cause you a feeling of disappointment to be told that the name of our hero is BrownTom Brown. It is important at the beginning of any matter that those concerned should clearly understand their...
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The Gorilla HuntersThe Gorilla HuntersIt was five oclock in the afternoon. There can be no doubt whatever as to that. Old Agnes may say what she pleasesshe has a habit of doing sobut I know for certain (because I looked at my watch not ten minutes...
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Fighting the WhalesFighting the WhalesThere are few things in this world that have filled me with so much astonishment as the fact that man can kill a whale! That a fish, more than sixty feet long, and thirty feet round the body; with the bulk of...
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Charlie to the RescueCharlie to the RescueAt first there were few things, apparently, that did seem to his infant mind desirable, for his earliest days were marked by a sort of chronic crossness that seemed quite unaccountable in one so healthy; but this was eventually traced to...
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The World of IceThe World of IceNobody ever caught John Buzzby asleep by any chance whatever. No weasel was ever half so sensitive on that point as he was. Wherever he happened to be (and in the course of his adventurous life he had been to nearly...
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UngavaUngavaIf this volume should chance to fall into the hands of any of those who acted a part in the first settlement of Ungava, we trust that they will forgive the liberty that has been taken with their persons and adventures, remembering that transpositions,...
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The Settler and the SavageThe Settler and the SavageA solitary horsemana youth in early manhoodriding at a snails pace over the great plains, or karroo, of South Africa. His chin on his breast; his hands in the pockets of an old shooting-coat; his legs in ragged trousers, and...
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The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River FloodThe Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River FloodIf ever there was a man who possessed a gem in the form of a daughter of nineteen, that man was Samuel Ravenshaw; and if ever there was a girl who owned a bluff,...
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The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South AmericaThe Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South AmericaTowards the close of a bright and warm day, between fifty and sixty years ago, a solitary man might have been seen, mounted on a mule, wending his way slowly up the western...
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The Prairie ChiefThe Prairie ChiefWhitewing was a Red Indian of the North American prairies. Though not a chief of the highest standing, he was a very great man in the estimation of his tribe, for, besides being possessed of qualities which are highly esteemed among all...
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The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 - of Literature, Science and Art.Of the revolutions of the age, one of the most interesting and important is that which has taken place in the forms of Literature and the Modes of its...
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The South Sea WhalerThe South Sea WhalerA prosperous voyage, and a quick return, Captain Tredeagle, said the old pilot as he bade farewell to the commander of the Champion, which ship he had piloted down the Mersey on her voyage to the Pacific. Thank you, pilot. I...
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The Log House by the Lake: A Tale of CanadaThe Log House by the Lake: A Tale of CanadaIt was late in the afternoon when Mr Philip Ashton walked up to the door of his residence in Portman-square. His hand touched the knocker irresolutely. It must be done, he said to himself. May...
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The Frontier FortThe Frontier Fort - Or, Stirring Times in the North West Territory of British AmericaA party of travellers were wending their way across a wide-spreading prairie in the north-west territory of America. As far as the eye could reach, the ground was covered with...
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Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water TutorsCaptain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water TutorsWe belong to a Cornish family of the greatest respectability and high antiquityso say the county records, in which we have every reason to place the most unbounded confidence. The Tregellins have possessed the same estate for...
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In the Eastern SeasIn the Eastern SeasWell, Thudicumb, I hope by noon we may at last get a glimpse of the sun, said Captain Davenport to his first officer, as they walked the deck of the Bussorah Merchant, homeward bound from the East Indies, and at that...
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On the Banks of the AmazonOn the Banks of the AmazonI might find an excuse for being proud, if I were so,not because my ancestors were of exalted rank or title, or celebrated for noble deeds or unbounded wealth, or, indeed, on account of any ordinary reasons,but because I...
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The Ocean Cat's Paw: The Story of a Strange CruiseThe Ocean Cat's Paw: The Story of a Strange CruiseIt was a glorious day on Dartmoor, high up in the wildest part amongst the rugged tors, where a bright little river came flashing and sparkling along, and sending the bright beams of the sun...
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