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Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Shows that a Good Beginning may Sometimes be Followed by a Bad Ending.

CHAPTER II. Yoosoof’s “Black Ivory.”

CHAPTER III. Relates the Further Adventures of Harold and Disco, and Lifts the Curtain a Little Higher in Regard to the Slave-Trade.

CHAPTER IV. In Which Our Heroes See Strange Sights at Zanzibar, and Resolve Upon Taking a Bold Step.

CHAPTER V. In which the Travellers Enjoy Themselves Extremely, and Disco Lillihammer Sees Several Astonishing Sights.

CHAPTER VI. Describes Several New and Surprising Incidents, which must be Read to be Fully Appreciated.

CHAPTER VII. Enemies are Changed into Friends—Our Travellers Penetrate into the Interior of the Land.

CHAPTER VIII. Relates Adventures in the Shire Valley, and Touches on One or Two Phases of Slavery.

CHAPTER IX. In Which a Savage Chief Astonishes a Savage Animal.

CHAPTER X. Describes African Domesticity, and Many Other Things Relative Thereto, Besides Showing that Alarms and Flights, Surprises and Feasts, are not Confined to Particular Places.

CHAPTER XI. Reveals Disco’s Opinions about Savages, and the Savages’ Opinions of Disco, and Other Weighty Matters.

CHAPTER XII. Describes a Hunting Expedition which was both Exciting and Successful.

CHAPTER XIII. The Encampment and the Supper—Discussions, Political and Otherwise—Kambira Receives a Shock, and our Wanderers are Thrown into Perplexity.

CHAPTER XIV. Camping, Travelling, Shooting, Dreaming, Poetising, Philosophising, and Surprising, in Equatorial Africa.

CHAPTER XV. Shows Some of the Effects of the Slave-Trade at the Fountain-Head.

CHAPTER XVI. Treats of Love, Hatred, and Sorrow, and Proves that Slavery and its Consequences are not Confined to Black Men and Women.

CHAPTER XVII. Strong Measures Lead to Unexpected Discoveries.

CHAPTER XVIII. Describes Some of the Doings of Yoosoof and His Men in Procuring Black Ivory from the Interior of Africa.

CHAPTER XIX. Tells of Misfortunes that Befell Our Wanderers; of Familiar Toys Under New Aspects, Etcetera.

CHAPTER XX. Harold Appears in a New Character, and Two Old Characters Reappear to Harold.

CHAPTER XXI. Progress of the Slave-Run—The Deadly Swamp, and the Unexpected Rescue.

CHAPTER XXII. Describes “Black Ivory” at Sea.

CHAPTER XXIII. The Remedy.

CHAPTER XXIV. Tells of Sad Sights, and Sudden Events, and Unexpected Meetings.

CHAPTER XXV. The Last.