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A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE
BY
AUTHOR OF
'KING SOLOMON'S MINES' 'DAWN' 'THE WITCH'S HEAD' ETC.
IN EARTH AND SKIE AND SEA
STRANGE THINGES THER BE
Doggerel couplet from the Shard of Amenartas
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1887
All rights reserved
I INSCRIBE THIS HISTORY
TO
ANDREW LANG
IN TOKEN OF PERSONAL REGARD
AND OF
MY SINCERE ADMIRATION FOR HIS LEARNING AND HIS WORKS
Contents
edit- Introduction
- I: My Visitor
- II: The Years Roll By
- III: The Sherd of Amenartas
- IV: The Squall
- V: The Head of the Ethiopian
- VI: An Early Christian Ceremony
- VII: Ustane Sings
- VIII: The Feast, and After!
- IX: A Little Foot
- X: Speculations
- XI: The Plain of Kôr
- XII: "She"
- XIII: Ayesha Unveils
- XIV: A Soul in Hell
- XV: Ayesha Gives Judgment
- XVI: The Tombs of Kôr
- XVII: The Balance Turns
- XVIII: "Go, Woman!"
- XIX: "Give Me a Black Goat!"
- XX: Triumph
- XXI: The Dead and Living Meet
- XXII: Job Has a Presentiment
- XXIII: The Temple of Truth
- XXIV: Walking the Plank
- XXV: The Spirit of Life
- XXVI: What We Saw
- XXVII: We Leap
- XXVIII: Over the Mountain
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