Adventures in Many Lands

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Various. Adventures in Many Lands

I. A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE WITH HYENAS

II. THE VEGA VERDE MINE

III. A VERY NARROW SHAVE

IV. AN ADVENTURE IN ITALY

V. THE TAPU-TREE

VI. SOME PANTHER STORIES

VII. A MIDNIGHT RIDE ON A CALIFORNIAN RANCHE

VIII. O'DONNELL'S REVENGE

IX. MY ADVENTURE WITH A LION

X. THE SECRET CAVE OF HYDAS

Chapter I.—The Fight and Theft in the Museum

Chapter II.—Mark Mullen Disappears

Chapter III.—The Mysterious Fakir

Chapter IV.—A Capture

Chapter V.—A Valuable Find in the Temple of Atlas

XI. AN ADVENTURE IN THE HEART OF MALAY-LAND

XII. A WEEK-END ADVENTURE

XIII. THE DEFLECTED COMPASS

XIV. IN PERIL IN AFRICA

XV. KEEPING THE TRYST

XVI. WHO GOES THERE?

XVII. A DROWNING MESSMATE

XVIII. THE PILOT OF PORT CREEK

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There are many mighty hunters, and most of them can tell of many very thrilling adventures personally undergone with wild beasts; but probably none of them ever went through an experience equalling that which Arthur Spencer, the famous trapper, suffered in the wilds of Africa.

As the right-hand man of Carl Hagenbach, the great Hamburg dealer in wild animals, for whom Spencer trapped some of the finest and rarest beasts ever seen in captivity, thrilling adventures were everyday occurrences to him. The trapper's life is infinitely more exciting and dangerous than the hunter's, inasmuch as the latter hunts to kill, while the trapper hunts to capture, and the relative risks are not, therefore, comparable; but Spencer's adventure with the "scavenger of the wilds," as the spotted hyena is sometimes aptly called, was something so terrible that even he could not recollect it without shuddering.

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"They'll strike, señores!" said Don Alonso, with a shrug. "It can't be helped, I'm afraid. It's all Domecq's doing, the scoundrel! Why didn't you dismiss him, Don Alfredo, after that affair of Moreno's death? There's not a doubt he killed Moreno, and he hasn't a spark of gratitude or goodness in his nature."

"He's a capable hand," said Alfred Cayley.

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