Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago
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"Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago" by Alexander Montgomery. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Alexander Montgomery. Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago
Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago
Table of Contents
Five-Skull Island
Swamp-Swallowed
Live-Man Gardiner
To Oblige Vandorken!
A Tight Place!
A Bornean Revenge
Her Father's Head: A Bornean Nightmare
The Knave of Diamonds
The Woman Scorned: A Tragedy of Three
A Lamb to the Slaughter
Below Proof!
Four Fools: An International Complication
Two of a Tribe
No. 154
Cured: A Legend of Lombok
THE END
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Alexander Montgomery
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Green, up to his ankles in mud, was dragging out each foot in turn--only to sink the other deeper as his weight came on it. And the up-turned stuff--though the surface was a glossy green--was of a dirty saffron hue. A "porridge-pot," Redfern knew it for, and, on the instant, turned and made off. This--without his intervention--would rid him of his incumbrance, though to see the poor wretch slowly perish there was no need. But--blindly rushing from the other's crics--a word came to his ear that stopped him.
"The kris!--the kris!--I have it, after all!"
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