
Four Young Explorers
by Oliver Optic
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About this eBook
- Author
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897
- Title
- Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Voyages and travels -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24252
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24252
- Release Date
- January 11, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ALL-OVER-THE-WORLD LIBRARY — Four Young Explorers — OR — SIGHT-SEEING IN THE TROPICS — BY
- 2.OLIVER OPTIC
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
- 7.CHAPTER I — THE BORNEO HUNTERS AND EXPLORERS
- 8.CHAPTER II — A VOYAGE UP THE SARAWAK RIVER
- 9.CHAPTER III — SOMETHING ABOUT BORNEO AND ITS PEOPLE
- 10.CHAPTER IV — A SPECULATION IN CROCODILES
- 11.CHAPTER V — A HUNDRED AND EIGHT FEET OF CROCODILE
- 12.CHAPTER VI — THE VOYAGE UP THE SADONG TO SIMUJAN
- 13.CHAPTER VII — A SPIRITED BATTLE WITH ORANG-OUTANGS
- 14.CHAPTER VIII — A PERFORMANCE OF VERY AGILE GIBBONS
- 15.CHAPTER IX — A VISIT TO A DYAK LONG-HOUSE
- 16.CHAPTER X. — THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE DYAKS.
- 17.CHAPTER XI — STEAMBOATING THROUGH A GREAT FOREST
- 18.CHAPTER XII — A FORMIDABLE OBSTRUCTION REMOVED
- 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE CAPTAIN'S ASTOUNDING PROPOSITION
- 20.CHAPTER XIV — DOWN THE SIMUJAN AND UP THE SARAWAK
- 21.CHAPTER XV — ON THE VOYAGE TO POINT CAMBODIA
- 22.CHAPTER XVI — AN EXCITING RACE IN THE CHINA SEA
- 23.CHAPTER XVII — THE END OF THE VOYAGE TO BANGKOK
- 24.CHAPTER XVIII — LOUIS'S DOUBLE-DINNER ARGUMENT
- 25.CHAPTER XIX — A HASTY GLANCE AT BANGKOK
- 26.CHAPTER XX — A VIEW OF COCHIN CHINA AND SIAM
- 27.CHAPTER XXI — ON THE VOYAGE TO SAIGON
- 28.CHAPTER XXII — IN THE DOMINIONS OF THE FRENCH
- 29.CHAPTER XXIII — A LIVELY EVENING AT THE HOTEL
- 30.CHAPTER XXIV — TONQUIN AND SIGHTS IN CHOLON
- 31.CHAPTER XXV — SEVERAL HILARIOUS FROLICS
- 32.CHAPTER XXVI — THE VOYAGE ACROSS THE CHINA SEA
- 33.CHAPTER XXVII — SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PHILIPPINES — FOOTNOTE:
- 34.CHAPTER XXVIII — THE DESCRIPTION OF AN EARTHQUAKY CITY
- 35.CHAPTER XXIX — GOING ON SHORE IN MANILA
- 36.CHAPTER XXX. — EXCURSIONS ON SHORE AND UP THE PASIG
- 37.CHAPTER XXXI — HALF A LECTURE ON CHINESE SUBJECTS
- 38.CHAPTER XXXII — THE CONTINUATION OF THE LECTURE
- 39.CHAPTER XXXIII — THE CONCLUSION OF THE LECTURE
- 40.CHAPTER XXXIV — SIGHT-SEEING IN HONG-KONG AND CANTON
- 41.CHAPTER XXXV — SHANG-HAI AND THE YANG-TSZE-CHIANG
- 42.CHAPTER XXXVI — THE WALLS AND TEMPLES OF PEKIN
- 43.All-Over-The-World Library
- 44.J. T. TROWBRIDGE'S BOOKS — Transcriber's Notes:
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