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Adventure

by Jack London

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  1. 01CHAPTER I--SOMETHING TO BE DONE~16 min
  2. 02CHAPTER II--SOMETHING IS DONE~14 min
  3. 03CHAPTER III--THE JESSIE~17 min
  4. 04CHAPTER IV--JOAN LACKLAND~13 min
  5. 05CHAPTER V--SHE WOULD A PLANTER BE~25 min
  6. 06CHAPTER VI--TEMPEST~12 min
  7. 07CHAPTER VII--A HARD-BITTEN GANG~23 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VIII--LOCAL COLOUR~13 min
  9. 09CHAPTER IX--AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN~11 min
  10. 10CHAPTER X--A MESSAGE FROM BOUCHER~18 min
  11. 11CHAPTER XI--THE PORT ADAMS CROWD~14 min
  12. 12CHAPTER XII--MR. MORGAN AND MR. RAFF~13 min
  13. 13CHAPTER XIII--THE LOGIC OF YOUTH~16 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XIV--THE MARTHA~17 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XV--A DISCOURSE ON MANNERS~14 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XVI--THE GIRL WHO HAD NOT GROWN UP~24 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XVII--"YOUR" MISS LACKLAND~18 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XVIII--MAKING THE BOOKS COME TRUE~25 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XIX--THE LOST TOY~15 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XX--A MAN-TALK~13 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XXI--CONTRABAND~12 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XXII--GOGOOMY FINISHES ALONG KWAQUE ALTOGETHER~20 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XXIII--A MESSAGE FROM THE BUSH~14 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIV--IN THE BUSH~16 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXV--THE HEAD-HUNTERS~14 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXVI--BURNING DAYLIGHT~25 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXVII--MODERN DUELLING~12 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVIII--CAPITULATION~14 min

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He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung to him closely and desperately. At times, from weakness, his head drooped and rested on the woolly pate. At other times he lifted his head and stared with swimming eyes at the cocoanut palms that reeled and swung in the shimmering heat. He was clad in a thin undershirt and a strip of cotton cloth, that wrapped about his waist and descended to his knees. On his head was a battered Stetson, known to the trade as a Baden-Powell. About his middle was strapped a belt, which carried a large-calibred automatic pistol and several spare clips, loaded and ready for quick work. The rear was brought up by a black boy of fourteen or fifteen, who carried medicine bottles, a pail of hot water, and various other hospital appurtenances. They passed out of the compound through a small wicker gate, and went on under the blazing sun, winding about among new-planted cocoanuts that threw no sha…

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