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Title: The River of Darkness
Under Africa
Author: William Murray Graydon
Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24297]
Language: English
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THE RIVER OF DARKNESS
OR,
UNDER AFRICA.
By
WILLIAM MURRAY GRAYDON
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Copyrighted 1890
by FRANK A. MUNSEY
Copyrighted, 1902,
by THOMPSON & THOMAS
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
PROLOGUE. 5
I. THE STOLEN DESPATCHES. 9
II. A STRANGE MEETING. 16
III. THE ARAB'S WARNING. 23
IV. THE ALARM. 30
V. THE NIGHT ON THE ROOF. 38
VI. A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH. 44
VII. SOLD INTO SLAVERY. 51
VIII. THE SEPARATION. 57
IX. A CLOSE SHAVE. 62
X. THE SLAVE PRISON. 68
XI. CANARIS UNFOLDS A TALE. 76
XII. A DARING MOVE. 83
XIII. THE FLIGHT THROUGH THE TOWN. 91
XIV. OVER THE WALLS.
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