Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers

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Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables.

Contents

• Gordon Stables "Wild Life in the Land of the Giants" "A Tale of two Brothers"5
• Chapter One.8
• Book I—Our Home by the Sea. The Old Home by the Sea—Aunt Serapheema.8
• Chapter Two.17
• While Walking on the Sea-Beach.17
• Chapter Three.27
• The Story of a Shipwreck—A Mystery—The Fate of Poor Joe.27
• Chapter Four.40
• The Sound of War—First Sorrows—A Change in our Lives.40
• Chapter Five.49
• The Gallant “Thunderbolt”—Tom Morley, Bo’s’n’s Mate—A Strange Dream.49
• Chapter Six.61
• An Appalling Adventure—“We must Prepare for Instant Flight.”61
• Chapter Seven.70
• Alone on the Moor—Adventure in the Cave.70
• Chapter Eight.81
• Good Advice from a Strange Quarter—Midnight and Anxiety.81
• Chapter Nine.91
• A Midnight Drive—Arrival at Bristol—The Good Ship “Salamander”—How Tom Morley Died.91
• Chapter Ten.105
• Book II—Patagonia and the Land of Fire. A Strange Introduction—Saint Helena and Fun on Shore—Cape Town.105
• Chapter Eleven.119
• Life at Sea—Poor Father’s Death—Mattie and I.119
• Chapter Twelve.129
• “Come to me, Jack, I cannot come to you.”129
• Chapter Thirteen.140
• The Straits of Magellan—Firelanders—The Storm—The Ship Strikes.140
• Chapter Fourteen.149
• We Leave the Doomed Ship—Pursued by Savages.149
• Chapter Fifteen.159
• Lost in the Snowstorm—What we Saw in the Forest.159
• Chapter Sixteen.167
• A State of Siege.167
• Chapter Seventeen.176
• Fighting in Terrible Earnest—Our Last Sortie—Back to Back in Cornish Fashion.176
• Chapter Eighteen.186
• The Story of our Rescue—A Dinner and a Ball—Peter and Dulzura.186
• Chapter Nineteen.195
• Book III—The Land of Giants. All Alone on the Pampas—The Camp in the Cañon.195
• Chapter Twenty.206
• A Wild Ride—Cooking an Ostrich Whole—Quiet Evenings round the Camp Fire.206
• Chapter Twenty One.218
• The “Murder Tree”—Wild and Exciting Sport—Jill and the Puma—Hostile Indians.218
• Chapter Twenty Two.226
• A Blinding Summer-Snowstorm—Peter as a Horseman—Peter in a Fix.226
• Chapter Twenty Three.235
• Chapter Twenty Four.248
• A Journey to the Country of the Gualichu—The Earthquake—a wondrous sight—“I will pray to the Great Good Spirit.”248
• Chapter Twenty Five.256
• King Kaiso’s Land—A Regiment of Giants—Kaiso’s Witch—Condemned to Death.256
• Chapter Twenty Six.266
• Castizo’s Idyllic Home in the Cordilleras—Preparing for winter—catching and Breaking Wild Horses.266
• Chapter Twenty Seven.277
• The Snow-Wind—Winter Life and Amusement—Death of “De Little Coqueet.”277
• Chapter Twenty Eight.287
• The Dreaded River-Lion—Adventure on the Plains—Lost in a Snowstorm—“To Sleep were Death.”287
• Chapter Twenty Nine.296
• The Fight ’twixt Winter and Spring—A Never-to-be-Forgotten Evening—Attacked by Northern indians—The Fire.296
• Chapter Thirty.305
• “It is better thus.”305
• Chapter Thirty One.308
• On the Good Yacht “Magdalena”—“The very Seas used to sing to us”—The Home-Coming—The End.308
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE320

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