Prester John
PRESTER JOHN
By JOHN BUCHAN
Illustrated by HENRY PITZ
New York: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1910,
BY JOHN BUCHAN
PRESTER JOHN
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
Time, they say, must best of us capture,
And travel and battle and gems and gold
No more can kindle the ancient rapture,
For even the youngest of hearts grows old,
But in you, I think, the boy is not over;
So take this medley of ways and wars
As the gift of a friend and a fellow-lover
Of the fairest country under the stars.
J. B.
CONTENTS
Chapter I: The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore
Chapter II: Furth! Fortune!
Chapter III: Blaauwildebeestefontein
Chapter IV: My Journey to the Winter-veld
Chapter V: Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition
Chapter VI: The Drums Beat at Sunset
Chapter VII: Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale
Chapter VIII: I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa
Chapter IX: The Store at Umvelos'
Chapter X: I Go Treasure-hunting
Chapter XI: The Cave of the Rooirand
Chapter XII: Captain Arcoll Sends a Message
Chapter XIII: The Drift of the Letaba
Chapter XIV: I Carry the Collar of Prester John
Chapter XV: Morning in the Berg
Chapter XVI: Inanda's Kraal
Chapter XVII: A Deal and Its Consequences
Chapter XVIII: How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse
Chapter XIX: Arcoll's Shepherding
Chapter XX: My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
Chapter XXI: I Climb the Crags a Second Time
Chapter XXII: A Great Peril and a Great Salvation
Chapter XXIII: My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied
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