Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 4 – The Bad Roads Of Angola
Subject: Part 2
At this moment little Jack awoke, and put his arms around his mother’s neck. His eyes looked better. The fever had not returned. "You are better, my darling," s...
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Chapter 3 – On The March
Subject: Part 2
Africa! That name so terrible under the present circumstances, that name which he must now substitute for that of America, was not for an instant out of Dick Sand’s thoug...
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Chapter 2 – Harris And Negoro
Subject: Part 2
The day after that on which Dick Sand and his companions had established their last halt in the forest, two men met together about three miles from there, as it had been previo...
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Chapter 1 – The Slave Trade
Subject: Part 2
The slave trade! Nobody is ignorant of the significance of this word, which should never have found a place in human language. This abominable traffic, for a long time practise...
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Chapter 18 – The Terrible Word
Subject: Part 1
It was time to arrive. Extreme lassitude made it impossible for Mrs. Weldon to continue any longer a journey made under such painful conditions. Her little boy, crimson during ...
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Chapter 17 – A Hundred Miles In Two Days
Subject: Part 1
Generally, travelers or ramblers in the woods, who have slept in the forests under the lovely stars, are awakened by howlings as fantastic as disagreeable. There is everything ...
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Chapter 16 – On The Way
Subject: Part 1
It was not without a certain apprehension – nothing seemed to justify it, however – that Dick Sand, three hundred steps from the steep bank of the river, penetrated...
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Chapter 15 – Harris
Subject: Part 1
The next day, April 7th, Austin, who was on guard at sunrise, saw Dingo run barking to the little river. Almost immediately Mrs. Weldon, Dick Sand and the blacks came out of th...
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Chapter 14 – The Best To Do
Subject: Part 1
So then, after a voyage long delayed by calms, then favored by winds from the northwest and from the southwest – a voyage which had not lasted less than seventy-four days...
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Chapter 13 – Land! Land!
Subject: Part 1
Meanwhile, that confidence with which Dick Sand’s heart filled instinctively, was going to be partly justified. The next day, March 27th, the column of mercury rose in th...
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