Jasper Lyle
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Ward. Jasper Lyle
Chapter One. The Travellers
Chapter Two. The Bushman
Chapter Three. The Shipwreck
Chapter Four. The Deserter
Chapter Five. The Flight into Kafirland
Chapter Six. The Kafir Spy
Chapter Seven. Light in the Wilderness
Chapter Eight. The War-Cry in the Mountains
Chapter Nine. The Gathering of the Settlers
Chapter Ten. Mystery
Chapter Eleven. The Torture
Chapter Twelve. Eleanor’s Story
Chapter Thirteen. The Catastrophe
Chapter Fourteen. Strife
Chapter Fifteen. Dismay
Chapter Sixteen. The Sunless Kloof
Chapter Seventeen. The Patriarch
Chapter Eighteen. The Settlement Besieged
Chapter Nineteen. The Battle
Chapter Twenty. The General
Chapter Twenty One. Conclusion
Отрывок из книги
The little bushman, whom we have introduced as the attendant of our English officers, must be more particularly described ere we advance in a story in which he will frequently make his appearance.
The reader will consider his name—May—rather a misnomer for such a creature.
.....
At this moment he was intent chiefly on one point: he was determined to avoid all chance of further captivity or restraint.
As the fog was lifted from the river by the evening breeze, he felt the necessity of keeping out of sight of any stragglers about the opposite heights. He inspected the bulky package of provisions: a bag of damaged biscuits, some lumps of salt pork, a case of dried fruit—cabin property—a canister of cocoa, and various other articles, which had been hastily thrown into a bundle, and now adhered together like glue.
.....