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SIXTEEN YEARS IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA.
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LIVINGSTONE'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA: INCLUDING A Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, thence across the Continent, down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean FROM THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow: Corresponding Member of the Geographical and Historical Societies of New York Gold Medallist and Corresponding Member of the Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris, &c., &c
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INTRIGUING FOR A PRINCESS. An Adventure with Mexican Banditti.
BYEMERSON BENNETT,
AUTHOR OF "PRAIRIE FLOWER," "REFUGEES," "PERILS OF THE BORDER," "CLARA MORELAND," "TRAITOR," "ARTIST'S BRIDE," "FORGED WILL," ETC. ETC.PHILADELPHIA: J. W. BRADLEY, 48 NORTH FOURTH ST.
1859.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by EMERSON BENNETT, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PHILADELPHIA.
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.
IN offering No. 3 of our Railroad Library to the public, we are quite sure that very many of our readers will thank us for giving them, in this form, one of the best tales of this distinguished author.
The following, from a distinguished critic, so well expresses what we would say of Mr. Bennett, that we quote it in full:
"We feel no hesitation in placing Mr. Bennett as foremost among our American writers. Of course we do not include metaphysics, nor history, nor philosophy, (although it must be confessed that his writings prove his perfect familiarity with each;) but we mean that he is the best writer, taken all in all, of any in this country, in the particular field of literature which he has chosen. There are doubtless many writers who excel him in some minor points; but, taken as a whole, his works are unrivalled on this side the Atlantic.
"In all that he writes, there seems to be an irresistible charm, holding the reader spell-bound from the beginning to the end. That this gift is natural, and not acquired, we assume from reading some of his earlier productions. We well remember the eagerness with which the 'Prairie Flower' was sought after and devoured upon its first appearance in the West. Everybody page: 6-7 (Table of Contents) [View Page 6-7 (Table of Contents) ] body read it; everybody talked about it; and for a time, not to have seen the 'Prairie Flower' was to acknowledge yourself guilty of unpardonable ignorance. Since then many other of his works have appeared, descriptive of Western and Southern life, with the characters drawn so faithfully, that one can hardly go on board a steamboat, or enter a hotel, without recognising some of the living shapes of his ideal heroes and heroines.
"Of Mr. Bennett, personally, we know nothing, having never seen him, or even heard a person speak of him who has been honored with his acquaintance. But his reputation is the common property of all lovers of the noble maxims which he inculcates, the morality which he teaches, and the virtue which he adorns, in a style at once the purest and most fascinating. Under his glowing pen, vice is stripped of its gaudy coloring, and held up for abhorrence in all its haggard deformity; while virtue, humble and lowly, clothed in rags, is won from its timid retreat, and brought forth that the good in heart may do it homage."
CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. The Beautiful Unknown 9
- CHAPTER II. Almost Magic 16
- CHAPTER III. The Story, and What Followed 23
- CHAPTER IV. Several Matters 35
- CHAPTER V. The Attack 43
- CHAPTER VI. The Hacienda 53
- CHAPTER VII. Almost a Murder 61
- CHAPTER VIII. In the Power of my Enemies 71
- CHAPTER IX. Return to Life 82
- CHAPTER X. "All's Well that Ends Well" 89
