Treasure of Kings
Treasure of Kings by Charles Gilson is available here as the complete text, split into 613 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the "Big Fish," or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Charles Gilson. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39399.
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Treasure of Kings
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- Chapter I John Bannister
- Chapter II The Coming of Amos
- Chapter III The Map
- Chapter IV Kidnapped
- Chapter V I Set Forth upon My Voyage
- Chapter VI I Am Concerned in a Mutiny
- Chapter VII And Am Made to Pay for It
- Chapter VIII Into the Wilderness
- Chapter IX I Am Left to My Doom
- Chapter X How the Wild Men Came and Looked at Me
- Chapter XI I Burn My Boats
- Chapter XII The Path of the Tiger
- Chapter XIII The Story of Atupo
- Chapter XIV The Glade of Silent Death
- Chapter XV How I Beheld a Miracle
- Chapter XVI I Find the "Big Fish"
- Chapter XVII The Greater Treasure
- Chapter XVIII I Fall in with a Friend
- Chapter XIX The Boatswain Tells His Story
- Chapter XX I Return to the Soldier’s Tomb
- Chapter XXI I Am Made a Ghost, and Then a Fool
- Chapter XXII Mr. Forsyth and I Become Better Acquainted
- Chapter XXIII How Amos Gained Possession of the Map
- Chapter XXIV How Amos Was Possessed of Seven Devils
- Chapter XXV How the Sheep Were Shorn
- Chapter XXVI A Night of Terror
- Chapter XXVII How Amos Met His End
- Chapter XXVIII Conclusion
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About 255 minutes of reading across 613 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Shall
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- Never
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- First
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