In Far Bolivia
In Far Bolivia by Gordon Stables is available here as the complete text, split into 754 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land by Gordon Stables. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39728.
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In Far Bolivia
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II On the Banks of the Great Amazon
- Chapter III Strange Adventures in the Forest--Lost!
- Chapter IV Burnley Hall, Old and New
- Chapter V Away Down the River
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII "Not One Single Drop of Blood Shed"
- Chapter VIII "A Cold Hand Seemed to Clutch Her Heart"
- Chapter IX Fiercely and Wildly Both Sides Fought
- Chapter X That Tree in the Forest Glade
- Chapter XI Benee Makes a Strange Discovery
- Chapter XII All Alone in the Wilderness
- Chapter XIII Benee Entrenched--Savage Revels in the Forest
- Chapter XIV The March to the Loveless Land
- Chapter XV The Home of the Cannibal--Benee’s Romance
- Chapter XVI Shooks-Gee’s Story--a Cannibal Queen
- Chapter XVII On the Banks of a Beautiful River
- Chapter XVIII Bill and His Boats
- Chapter XIX As If Struck by a Dum-Dum Bullet
- Chapter XX Struggling Onwards Up-Stream
- Chapter XXI The Pagan Paynees Were Thirsting for Blood
- Chapter XXII The Forest Is Sheeted in Flames
- Chapter XXIII Evenings by the Camp Fire
- Chapter XXIV A Marvellous Lake in a Marvellous Land--la Paz
- Chapter XXV Benee’s Story--the Young Cannibal Queen
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII The Pale-Face Queen Has Fled
- Chapter XXVIII The Fight at the Fort
- Chapter XXIX The Dream and the Terror!
- Chapter XXX Eastward Ho! for Merrie England
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Project Gutenberg eBook #39728, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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- Story
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- Strange
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- Gordon
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- Stables
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