Adventures in Many Lands

Adventures in Many Lands, by Various

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Title: Adventures in Many Lands
Author: Various
Illustrator: F. Gillett
Release Date: November 17, 2007 [EBook #23530]
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS
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THE BRAVE DEEDS SERIES
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
THE BLACK TROOPERS, AND OTHER STORIES
A RACE FOR LIFE, AND OTHER TALES
NOBLE DEEDS OF THE WORLD'S HEROINES. By Henry Charles Moore.
THROUGH FLOOD AND FLAME. Adventures and Perils of Protestant Heroes. By Henry Charles Moore.
HEROES OF THE GOODWIN SANDS. By the Rev. T. S. Treanor, M.A.
ON THE INDIAN TRAIL, AND OTHER STORIES OF THE CREE AND SALTEAUX INDIANS. By Egerton R. Young.
REMARKABLE ADVENTURES FROM REAL LIFE.
THROUGH FIRE AND THROUGH WATER. By T. S. Millington.
FRANK LAYTON. An Australian Story. By George E. Sargent.
THE REALM OF THE ICE-KING. A Narrative of Arctic Exploration. By T. Frost.
THE FOSTER-BROTHERS OF DOON. A Tale of the Irish Rebellion. By E. H. Walshe.
THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. By Captain E. F. Brooke-Knight.
STEADFAST AND TRUE. By L. C. Silke.
ADVENTURE STORIES: DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
HISTORICAL TALES FOR YOUNG PROTESTANTS.
BRAVE SONS OF THE EMPIRE. By Henry Charles Moore.
THE LOG OF A SKY-PILOT; or, Work and Adventure around the Goodwin Sands. By T. S. Treanor, M.A.
SAXBY. A Tale of the Commonwealth Time. By Emma Leslie.
WITHIN SEA WALLS. By E. H. Walshe and G. E. Sargent.
THE HEROES OF MOSS HALL SCHOOL. A Public School Story. By E. C. Kenyon.
A GREAT MISTAKE. A Story of Adventure in the Franco-German War. By T. S. Millington.
THE TREASURE OF CHIN-LOO.
LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.
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[Illustration: THE WOUNDED ANIMAL SUDDENLY SPRANG OUT AT ME. See page 59.]

ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS
Told by
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, WILLIAM WEBSTER, ALFRED COLBECK, A. LEE KNIGHT, And Other Writers.
WITH THREE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. GILLETT
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 4 Bouverie Street & 65 St. Paul's Churchyard

CONTENTS
PAGE I
A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE WITH HYENAS 5 By C. Randolph Lichfield
II
THE VEGA VERDE MINE 10 By Charles Edwardes
III
A VERY NARROW SHAVE 20 By John Lang
IV
AN ADVENTURE IN ITALY 31 By J. Kinchin Smith
V
THE TAPU-TREE 38 By A. Ferguson
VI
SOME PANTHER STORIES 49 By Various Writers
VII
A MIDNIGHT RIDE ON A CALIFORNIAN RANCH 69 By A. F. Walker
VIII
O'DONNELL'S REVENGE 84 By Frank Maclean
IX
MY ADVENTURE WITH A LION 105 By Algernon Blackwood
X
THE SECRET CAVE OF HYDAS 116 By F. Barford
XI
AN ADVENTURE IN THE HEART OF MALAY-LAND 155 By Alexander Macdonald, F.R.G.S.
XII
A WEEK-END ADVENTURE 171 By William Webster
XIII
THE DEFLECTED COMPASS 193 By Alfred Colbeck
XIV
IN PERIL IN AFRICA 214 By Maurice Kerr
XV
KEEPING THE TRYST 227 By E. Cockburn Reynolds
XVI
WHO GOES THERE? 245 By Rowland W. Cater
XVII
A DROWNING MESSMATE 257 By A. Lee Knight
XVIII
THE PILOT OF PORT CREEK 266 By Burnett Fallow

ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS

I
A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE WITH HYENAS
There are many mighty hunters, and most of them can tell of many very thrilling adventures personally undergone with wild beasts; but probably none of them ever went through an experience equalling that which Arthur Spencer, the famous trapper, suffered in the wilds of Africa.
As the right-hand man of Carl Hagenbach, the great Hamburg dealer in wild animals, for whom Spencer trapped some of the finest and rarest beasts ever seen in captivity, thrilling adventures were everyday occurrences to him. The trapper's life is infinitely more exciting and dangerous than the hunter's, inasmuch as the latter hunts to kill, while the trapper hunts to capture, and the relative risks are not, therefore, comparable; but Spencer's adventure with the "scavenger of the wilds," as the spotted hyena is sometimes aptly called, was something so terrible that even he could not recollect it without shuddering.
He was out with his party on an extended trapping expedition, and one day he chanced to get separated from his followers; and, partly overcome by the intense heat and his fatigue, he lay down and fell asleep--about the most dangerous thing a solitary traveller in the interior of Africa can do. Some hours later, when the scorching sun was beginning to settle down in the west, he was aroused by the sound of laughter not far away.
For the moment he thought his followers had found him, and were amused to find him taking his difficulties so comfortably; but hearing the laugh repeated he realised at once that no human being ever gave utterance to quite such a sound; in fact, his trained ear told him it was the cry of the spotted hyena. Now thoroughly awake, he sat up and saw a couple of the ugly brutes about fifty