Identifier: frankradcliffest1884daun (find matches)
Title: Frank Radcliffe; a story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Daunt, Achilles
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Publisher: London, New York, T. Nelson
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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f jaguars, deer,peccaries, and the various other animals there to befound. But at length my holidays drew to a close. Lettersfrom home announced matters of importance whichdemanded my personal supervision; and, full ofregret at leaving the happy home I had found, I wascompelled to return to the cold and sterile north. I still look forward, however, to making another 426 ANOTHER JOURNEY LIES BEFORE ME. journey up the Orinoco. At Santa Barbara resides a lady fair to see, of whom I think often, perhapstoo often. Need I say that her name is Winefreda ?She writes sometimes to her sister, and I learn frommy friend George (who would not divulge a secret forthe world!) that these letters are very full of recol-lections which are also sweet to me. Another journey by the glowing forests of theOrinoco therefore lies before me. Shall I also laythe incidents of that expedition before my boy-readers ? THE END. 1 Date Due mm 1
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ADVENTURE WITH A JAGUAR. Page 231. J Frank Eedcliffe A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTUREIN THE FORESTS OF VENEZUELA. -^ Book for ®O2)0. By ACHILLES DAUNT, Author of The Three Trappers, y^iTu Jllustrations. T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.1884. 1 \\ CONTENTS. -♦4- CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE AND PKOCLTVITIES — LOVE FOR SHOOTING — RUSE TO OBTAINAMMUNITION — DIFFICULTIES RAISED BY MY FATHER OVERCOME BY ASTRATAGEM — SENT TO SCHOOL—FRIENDSHIPS FORMED THERE — COLLEGELIBRARIES, AND THE COURSE OF READING I FOLLOWED—LEAVE SCHOOL—IDEAS OF PROFESSION ABANDONED—MY LIFE CONTINUES UNCHANGED—LOVE FOR FOXES—COOPERs LEATHER-STOCKING TALES AND THEIREFFECTS—NEW RIFLE—MY SKILL IN ITS USE — VISIONS OF CANADIANBACKWOODS—DESIRE TO TRAVEL—LETTER FROM MY UNCLE IN VENE-ZUELA—RESOLVE TO VISIT VENEZUELA—LETTER FROM GEORGE HARRI-SON—LEAVE HOME—REGRETS 11-25 CHAPTER IL dolphins and flying-fish—monotony of the voyage—the heat—self-examination— la

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