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Lost in the Jungle

Lost in the Jungle by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu is available here as the complete text, split into 652 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu30 chapters

Lost in the Jungle by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36324.

30 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 30 chapters

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Lost in the Jungle

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  1. Chapter I 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II A queer Canoe.--On the Rembo.--We reach the 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Harpooning a Manga.--A great Prize.--Our Canoe 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV We go into the Forest.--Hunt for Ebony-trees.--The 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Lost.--Querlaouen says we are Bewitched.--Monkeys 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI A white Gorilla.--Meeting two Gorillas.--The Female 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Return to the Ovenga River.--The Monkeys and their 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII We are in a Canoe.--Outfit for Hunting.--See a 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX We hear the Cry of a young Gorilla.--Start to 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X Jack will have his own way.--He seizes my 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Start after Land-crabs.--Village of the 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII Strange Spiders.--The House-spider.--How they 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII We continue our Wanderings.--Joined by Etia.--We 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV A formidable Bird.--The People are afraid of 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV The Cascade of Niama-Biembai.--A native 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Funeral of the Gorilla's Victim.--A Man's Head 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII At Washington once more.--Delights of the 14 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX Quengueza orders Ilogo to be consulted about 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Departure from Goumbi.--Querlaouen's Village.--Find 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Leave for Ashira Land.--In a Swamp.--Cross the 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII Great Mountains.--Ashira Land is beautiful.--The 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII King Olenda comes to receive me.--He is very 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV They all come to see me.--They say I have an 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Propose to start for Haunted Mountains.--Olenda 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Departure for the Apingi Country.--The Ovigui 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII A Gorilla.--How he attacked me.--I kill 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX First Day in Apingi Land.--I fire a Gun.--The 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX A large Fleet of Canoes.--We ascend the 33 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Jungle
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Narrated
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Young
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People
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