Blown to Bits, by Robert Michael Ballantyne

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Title: Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata

Author: Robert Michael Ballantyne

Release Date: March 13, 2005 [EBook #15348]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Blown to Bits or The Lonely Man of Rakata]

[Illustration: CAME UNEXPECTEDLY ON A CAVERN."--PAGE 112.--(Frontispiece.)]

BLOWN TO BITS

THE LONELY MAN OF RAKATA.

A Tale of the Malay Archipelago.

BY R.M. BALLANTYNE,

AUTHOR OF "BLUE LIGHTS, OR HOT WORK IN THE SOUDAN;" "THE FUGITIVES;" "RED ROONEY;" "THE ROVER OF THE ANDES;" "THE WILD MAN OF THE WEST;" "THE RED ERIC;" "FREAKS ON THE FELLS;" "THE YOUNG TRAWLER;" "DUSTY DIAMONDS;" "THE BATTERY AND THE BOILER;" "POST HASTE;" "BLACK IVORY;" "THE IRON HORSE;" "FIGHTING THE FLAMES;" "THE LIFEBOAT;" ETC. ETC.

With Illustrations by the Author.

EIGHTH THOUSAND.

LONDON:

JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.

1894.

PREFACE.

The extremely violent nature of the volcanic eruption in Krakatoa in 1883, th

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