CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A FISHING EXCURSION
CHAPTER II. A MAD DOG
CHAPTER III. A TOUGH YARN
CHAPTER IV. A RISING TIDE
CHAPTER V. ALONE IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST STEP
CHAPTER VII. AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. TO THE DARK CONTINENT
CHAPTER IX. THE START INLAND
CHAPTER X. LOST IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER XI. A HOSTILE TRIBE
CHAPTER XII. A NEGRO'S STORY
CHAPTER XIII. A FUGITIVE SLAVE
CHAPTER XIV. A CHRISTIAN TOWN
CHAPTER XV. THE AMAZONS OF DAHOMET
CHAPTER XVI. CAPTIVES IN COOMASSIE
CHAPTER XVII. THE INVASION OF FANTI LAND
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ATTACK ON ELMINA
CHAPTER XIX. THE TIDE TURNED
CHAPTER XX. THE WHITE TROOPS
CHAPTER XXI. THE ADVANCE TO THE PRAH
CHAPTER XXII. THE BATTLE OF AMOAFUL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CAPTURE OF COOMASSIE
“Now, Hargate, what a fellow you are! I've been looking for you everywhere. Don't you know it's the House against the Town boys. It's lucky that the Town have got the first innings; they began a quarter of an hour ago.”
“How tiresome!” Frank Hargate said. “I was watching a most interesting thing here. Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood. There was a small black snake threatening the nest, and the mother was defending it with quivering wings and open beak. I never saw a prettier thing. I sat quite still and neither of them seemed to notice me. Of course I should have interfered if I had seen the snake getting the best of it. When you came running up like a cart horse, the snake glided away in the grass, and the bird flew off. Oh, dear! I am sorry. I had forgotten all about the match.”
“I never saw such a fellow as you are, Hargate. Here's the opening match of the season, and you, who are one of our best bats, poking about after birds and snakes. Come along; Thompson sent me and two or three o