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Title: Popular Adventure Tales

Author: Mayne Reid

Release Date: June 1, 2008 [EBook #25665]

Language: English

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POPULAR ADVENTURE TALES

[Illustration: THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS ON THE RED RIVER.]

Popular Adventure Tales

COMPRISING

_THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS_
OR, THE BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH

_THE FOREST EXILES_
OR, ADVENTURES AMID THE WILDS OF THE AMAZON

_THE BUSH-BOYS_
OR, ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

By

CAPTAIN MAYNE REID

AUTHOR OF
"_The Rifle Rangers_" "_The Wood Rangers_"
_&c., &c._

_ILLUSTRATED_

LONDON
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO.
GLASGOW: THOMAS D. MORISON

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Captain Mayne Reid was born at Ballyroney, County Down, on the 4th
April, 1818, and was the son of the Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid. Mayne Reid
was educated with a view to the Church, but finding his inclinations
opposed to this calling, he emigrated to America and arrived in New
Orleans on January, 1840. After a varied career as plantation over-seer,
school-master, and actor, with a number of expeditions in connection
with hunting and Indian warfare, he settled down in 1843 as a journalist
in Philadelphia, where he made the acquaintance of Edgar Allan Poe.

Leaving Philadelphia in 1846, he spent the summer at Newport, Rhode
Island, as the correspondent of the _New York Herald_, and in December
of the same year, having obtained a commission as second lieutenant in
the 1st New York Volunteers, he sailed for Vera Cruz to take part in the
Mexican war. He behaved with conspicuous gallantry in many engagements,
and was severely wounded and disabled at the storming of Chapultepec on
the 13th September, 1847.

Returning to the United States in the spring of 1848, he resumed
literary work. But in June, 1849, he sailed for Europe in order to take
part in the revolutionary movements going on in Hungary and Bavaria,
arriving however t