Cupid in Africa
Cupid in Africa by Percival Christopher Wren is available here as the complete text, split into 1546 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Cupid in Africa by Percival Christopher Wren. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #37544.
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- Chapter I _Major Hugh Walsingham Greene_
- Chapter II _Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr Karl Stein-Brücker)_
- Chapter III _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker—and Her Ex-Stepson_
- Chapter IV _Bertram Becomes a Man of War_
- Chapter V _And is Ordered to East Africa_
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII _Terra Marique Jactatus_
- Chapter VIII _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker_
- Chapter IX _Mombasa_
- Chapter X _The Mombasa Club_
- Chapter XI _Military and Naval Manœuvres_
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII _M’paga_
- Chapter XIV _Food and Feeders_
- Chapter XV _Reflections_
- Chapter XVI _Baking_
- Chapter XVII _The Convoy_
- Chapter XVIII _Butindi_
- Chapter XIX _The Bristol Bar_
- Chapter XX _More Baking_
- Chapter XXI _Trial_
- Chapter XXII _Of a Pudding_
- Chapter XXIII _Stein-Brücker Meets Bertram Greene—and Death_
- Chapter XXIV _Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Again_
- Chapter XXV _Love_
- Chapter XXVI _Love and War_
- Chapter XXVII
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