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Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics By: Oliver Optic (1822-1897) |
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OLIVER OPTIC [Illustration] FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
ALL OVER THE WORLD LIBRARY By OLIVER OPTIC Illustrated, Price per Volume $1.25 FIRST SERIES A MISSING MILLION
Or THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS BELGRAVE A MILLIONAIRE AT SIXTEEN
Or THE CRUISE OF THE GUARDIAN MOTHER A YOUNG KNIGHT ERRANT
Or CRUISING IN THE WEST INDIES STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD
Or A VOYAGE IN EUROPEAN WATERS SECOND SERIES AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT
Or CRUISING IN THE ORIENT THE YOUNG NAVIGATORS
Or THE FOREIGN CRUISE OF THE MAUD UP AND DOWN THE NILE
Or YOUNG ADVENTURERS IN AFRICA ASIATIC BREEZES
Or STUDENTS ON THE WING THIRD SERIES ACROSS INDIA
Or LIVE BOYS IN THE FAR EAST HALF ROUND THE WORLD
Or AMONG THE UNCIVILIZED FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
Or SIGHT SEEING IN THE TROPICS OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION ANY VOLUME SOLD SEPARATELY LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston [Illustration: "YOUR FIRST SHOT, LOUIS," SAID SCOTT. Page 30. ] All Over the World Library Third Volume of Third Series
FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS OR SIGHT SEEING IN THE TROPICS BY OLIVER OPTIC AUTHOR OF
"THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES" "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD, FIRST AND SECOND
SERIES" "THE BOAT CLUB STORIES" "THE ONWARD AND UPWARD SERIES"
"THE GREAT WESTERN SERIES" "THE WOODVILLE STORIES" "THE
LAKE SHORE SERIES" "THE YACHT CLUB SERIES" "THE RIVERDALE
STORIES" "THE BOAT BUILDER SERIES" "THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
AFLOAT" "THE BLUE AND THE GRAY ON LAND" "THE STARRY
FLAG SERIES" "ALL OVER THE WORLD LIBRARY, FIRST SECOND
AND THIRD SERIES" COMPRISING "A MISSING MILLION" "A
MILLIONAIRE AT SIXTEEN" "A YOUNG KNIGHT ERRANT"
"STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD" "AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT"
"THE YOUNG NAVIGATORS" "UP AND DOWN THE
NILE" "ASIATIC BREEZES" "ACROSS INDIA"
"HALF ROUND THE WORLD" ETC., ETC., ETC. BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET
1896
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY LEE AND SHEPARD All Rights Reserved FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
TYPOGRAPHY BY C. J. PETERS & SON, BOSTON.
PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH.
TO
MY APPRECIATIVE AND VALUED FRIEND FREDERICK D. RUGGLES, ESQ. RESIDING ON A HISTORIC HILL IN
HARDWICK, MASS. This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY
DEDICATED.
PREFACE
"FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS" is the third volume of the third series of the
"All Over the World Library." When the young millionaire and his three
companions of about his own age, with a chosen list of near and dear
friends, had made the voyage "Half Round the World," the volume with
this title left them all at Sarawak in the island of Borneo. The four
young explorers, as they became, were permitted to spend three weeks
there hunting, fishing, and ascending some of the rivers, while the rest
of the party proceeded in the Guardian Mother to Siam. The younger
members of the ship's company believed they had seen enough of temples,
palaces, and fine gardens in the great cities of the East, and desired
to live a wilder life for a brief period. They were provided with a steam launch, prepared for long trips; and
they ascended the Sarawak, the Sadong, and the Simujan Rivers, and had
all the hunting, fishing, and exploring they desired. They visited the
villages of the Sea and Hill Dyaks, and learned what they could of their
manners and customs, penetrating the island from the sea to the
mountains. They studied the flora and the fauna of the forests, and were
exceedingly interested in their occupation for about a week, when they
came to the conclusion that "too much of a good thing" became wearisome;
and, more from the love of adventure than for any other reason, they
decided to proceed to Bangkok, and to make the voyage of nine hundred
miles in the Blanchita, as they had named the steam launch, which voyage
was accomplished without accident... Continue reading book >>
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