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Dead Man's Land, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Stanley L. Wood
Release Date: December 19, 2007 [EBook #23922]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Dead Man's Land
CHAPTER ONE.
JUST BEFORE DINNER.
Mark jumped up.
"You there, father! I did not hear you come in."
Doctor Robertson, tutor, half rose from his seat by the glowing library fire.
"No, my boy, and I did not hear you come in."
"Why, uncle, you have been sitting there listening!" cried Dean.
"To be sure I have. How could I help it, sir? I came in tired, and thought I would have a nap in my own chair till it was time to change for dinner, and you woke me up out of a pleasant dream which somehow shaped itself into climbing with an ice axe and nearly losing it. It was some time before I could make out whether I was really awake or dreaming still, and I lay listening and getting more and more interested in what the doctor described to you two stupid boys."
"Oh, father, you shoul