This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...such an emeute occurring. " Yes, a mutiny," he returned very seriously. " But not in this colony, I am glad to add. The fact is, the Sepoys in the Punjaub are up in arms, and our garrisons in the North-West Provinces are hard pressed. Fire and sword are doing deadly work out there. Women and children are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...such an emeute occurring. " Yes, a mutiny," he returned very seriously. " But not in this colony, I am glad to add. The fact is, the Sepoys in the Punjaub are up in arms, and our garrisons in the North-West Provinces are hard pressed. Fire and sword are doing deadly work out there. Women and children are butchered in cold blood, and we retaliate mercilessly by blowing the rascally Sepoys from our guns. Outram and Havelock have had hard times, and Sir Colin Campbell has been sent out as commandcr-in-chief. Well, to make a long story short, instructions have been received to raise your regiment to war strength by the immediate addition of two companies, and you are all under orders to proceed to Calcutta." This was indeed startling intelligence, and admitted of no gainsaying. We therefore at once packed up our traps, and prepared for an immediate return to head-quarters. Within an hour we were all ready for a start. We four officers, taking passage in Captain K 's boat, arrived at the settlement in time to catch a small passenger-steamer that had come up with convicts, and we reached the government wharf at Georgetown early on the following afternoon. "Times have changed since then, and we have changed with them," as Horace sang nearly a thousand years ago; but sport in British Guiana remains precisely the same. It is still the " forest primeval "; still roamed by the jaguar, the puma, and the peccary; still the resort of the ant-bear, the labba, the crab-dog, and the sloth. Toucans, macaws, bush-turkeys, parrots, cranes, .and the scarlet ibis, still fly with lazy wings over its vast savannahs, together with wild duck in all their varieties, and snipe in their unique state. Still monkeys in their wondrous thousands pervade the forest--from the queer...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Quarto, clothbound. Title and year in black with illustration on spine. Title with illustration in black and orange con cover, Floral endpaper. Frontispiece illustation of the Savage Club logo. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney. Boards well rubbed. Backstrip torn from back and fraye dat ends. Corners bumped. Age toned pages. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1050grams, ISBN:
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Good. Original pictorial gray cloth in orange and black. Rubbing wear, some loss to boards. Anthology of fiction and poetry, mostly light or humorous, but including some adventure and crime fiction. Includes work by J. E. Muddock, George Manville Fenn and Arthur Morrison, as well as "Only a Hunchback! " by G. A. Henty.