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Old Gold, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Stanley L. Wood
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21360]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Old Gold; or, The Cruise of the Brig Jason, by George Manville Fenn.
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Here we have yet another suspense-filled adventure novel by Fenn. There seems to be no end to the situations into which the people in the book can get themselves, and from which there seem to be no escape.
A couple of wealthy Englishmen are determined to sail as far as they can up one of the great rivers of South America, perhaps the Orinoco or perhaps the Amazon. At the time this has never before been done. After finding a ship and skipper they are joined by Briscoe, a rather pushy young man, who has some good characteristics, but whom none of them really like, and who gets on board, with all his stores and a servant, by a series of subterfuges.
As they make their way up the river--they choose the Amazon--they are attacked by the local natives, armed with bows and arrows. Then a boat they send out to explore near a grea