Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 14 – Some News Of Dr. Livingstone
Subject: Part 2
Left alone, Mrs. Weldon at first only fixed her mind on this thought, that eight days would pass before Negoro would return for a definite answer. There was time to reflect and...
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Chapter 13 – The Interior Of A Factory
Subject: Part 2
Harris and Negoro had told a lie in saying that Mrs. Weldon and little Jack were dead. She, her son, and Cousin Benedict were then in Kazounde. After the assault on the ant-hil...
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Chapter 12 – A Royal Burial
Subject: Part 2
The next day, May 29th, the city of Kazounde presented a strange aspect. The natives, terrified, kept themselves shut up in their huts. They had never seen a king, who said he ...
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Chapter 11 – The King Of Kazounde Is Offered A Punch
Subject: Part 2
It was four o’clock in the afternoon when a loud noise of drums, cymbals, and other instruments of African origin resounded at the end of the principal street. In all cor...
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Chapter 10 – The Great Market Day
Subject: Part 2
Dick Sand’s action had been so rapid that no one could stop him. A few natives threw themselves upon him, and he would have been murdered had not Negoro appeared. At a si...
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Chapter 9 – Kazounde
Subject: Part 2
ON May 26th, the caravan of slaves arrived at Kazounde. Fifty per cent. of the prisoners taken in the last raid had fallen on the road. Meanwhile, the business was still good f...
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Chapter 8 – Some Of Dick Sand’s Notes
Subject: Part 2
Though the storm of the day before had ceased, the weather was still very unsettled. It was, besides, the period of the "masika," the second period of the rainy seaso...
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Chapter 7 – In Camp On The Banks Of The Coanza
Subject: Part 2
The aspect of the country was entirely changed since the inundation. It had made a lake of the plain where the termite village stood. The cones of twenty ant-hills emerged, and...
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Chapter 6 – The Diving-Bell
Subject: Part 2
To this unexpected revelation Dick Sand could not reply. Besides, Mrs. Weldon had gone back at once to her place beside little Jack. She evidently did not wish to say any more ...
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Chapter 5 – Ants And Their Dwelling
Subject: Part 2
At this moment the storm burst with a violence unknown in temperate latitudes. It was providential that Dick Sand and his companions had found this refuge! In fact, the rain di...
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