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The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo

The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson is available here as the complete text, split into 652 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39255.

21 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
US EnglishNarration and vocabulary
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Academic course · 21 chapters

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The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo

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  1. Chapter I 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II On the Kasai 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III The White Wizard 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV The Hidden River 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V The Stockade 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI Crouch on the War-Path 44 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII The White Man’s Burden 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII Leave to Quit 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX A Thief by Night 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII When Hope Dies Out 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Back to the Unknown 25 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV "Black Ivory" 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Cholera 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI The Open Chest 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII The Tables Turned 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Freedom 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The Phantom Canoe 30 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX The Rats Escape 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Back at the "Explorers’" 35 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Is this the complete text of The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo?

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Project Gutenberg eBook #39255, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 271 minutes of reading across 652 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo

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Explorers
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Longer
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Exists
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To-day
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