n o r t h b o b n e o .
EXPLORATIONS AND ADYENTURES ON THE EQUATOR.
I.
PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
Introductory—The epilogue, sunshine—Childhood—School life At
the College of Marcq, Lille—Master of French—Enters at Kind’s
College School Oxford and Cambridge Examinations—The
« t °f Muies—Admiration for Darwin and Huxley
‘ Lifers hut a geological second Duty—A painless death
-h a v o u n te authors—A sad story—The prologue, shadow.
NY more for the
Continental express
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“ The electric lamps
‘ flashed into a sudden
radiance ’ as
the sun is said to
do at daybreak in
the tropics.
“ For a few minutes
previously to the
simultaneous leap
of light that transformed
a dozen
opaque globes into mimic suns, Charing Cross railway
station had been in semi-darkness,
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