The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel
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Aubrey Frank. The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel
CHAPTER I “WILL NO ONE EXPLORE RORAIMA?”3
CHAPTER II. MONELLA
CHAPTER III. THE JOURNEY FROM THE COAST
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST VIEW OF RORAIMA
CHAPTER V. IN THE ‘DEMONS’ WOOD.’
CHAPTER VI. THE MYSTERIOUS CAVERN
CHAPTER VII. THE CANYON WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER VIII. ALONE ON RORAIMA’S SUMMIT
CHAPTER IX. VISION OR REALITY?
CHAPTER X. IN SIGHT OF EL DORADO
CHAPTER XI. ULAMA, PRINCESS OF MANOA
CHAPTER XII. A PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH
CHAPTER XIII. A KING’S GREETING
CHAPTER XIV. DAKLA
CHAPTER XV. MARVELS OF MANOA
CHAPTER XVI. LEONARD AND ULAMA
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIGHT ON THE HILLSIDE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LEGEND OF MELLENDA
CHAPTER XIX. HOPES AND FEARS
CHAPTER XX. THE MESSAGE OF APALANO
CHAPTER XXI. THE GREAT DEVIL-TREE
CHAPTER XXII. SMILES AND TEARS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DEVIL-TREE BY MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. TRAPPED!
CHAPTER XXV ‘IN THE DEVIL-TREE’S LARDER!’
CHAPTER XXVI. CORYON
CHAPTER XXVII. ON THE ‘DEVIL-TREE’S LADLE!’
CHAPTER XXVIII. RALLYING TO THE CALL
CHAPTER XXIX ‘THOU ART MY LORD MELLENDA!’
CHAPTER XXX. A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE!
CHAPTER XXXI ‘THE SON OF APALANO!’
CHAPTER XXXII. THE TREE’S LAST MEAL
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAST OF THE GREAT DEVIL-TREE
CHAPTER XXXIV. A MARRIAGE AND A PARTING
CHAPTER XXXV. JUST IN TIME!
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE END
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Beneath the verandah of a handsome, comfortable-looking residence near Georgetown, the principal town of British Guiana, a young man sat one morning early in the year 1890, attentively studying a volume that lay open on a small table before him. It was easy to see that he was reading something that was, for him at least, of more than ordinary interest, something that seemed to carry his thoughts far away from the scene around him; for when, presently, he raised his eyes from the book, they looked out straight before him with a gaze that evidently saw nothing of that on which they rested.
He was a handsome young fellow of, perhaps, twenty-two years of age, rather tall, and well-made, with light wavy hair, and blue-grey eyes that had in them an introspective, somewhat dreamy expression, but that nevertheless could light up on occasion with an animated glance.
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But when Mr. and Mrs. Elwood left the estate they had been cultivating, to go to England, the two Indians had gone away into the interior to live at an Indian settlement with their own tribe. About twice a year, however – or even oftener, if there were occasion – Matava still came down to the coast upon some little trading expedition with other Indians; and at such times he never failed to come to see the Kingsfords and inquire after Leonard.
The Dr. Lorien, of whom mention had been made by Leonard, was a retired medical practitioner who had turned botanist and orchid-collector. He had been a ship’s doctor, and in that capacity had voyaged pretty well all over the world. Since he had given that up he had travelled further still by land – in the tropical regions in the heart of Africa, in Siam, the Malay Peninsular and, latterly, in South America – in search of orchids and other rare floral and botanical specimens. The vicinity of Roraima being one of the most remarkable in the world for such things – though so difficult of access as to be but seldom visited by white men – it is not surprising that he had lately planned a journey thither.
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