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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3, by George Augustus Sala This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Author: George Augustus Sala Release Date: September 19, 2008 [EBook #26667] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAIN DANGEROUS, VOL. 1 OF 3 *** Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DANGEROUS: WHO WAS A SOLDIER, A SAILOR, A MERCHANT, A SPY, A SLAVE AMONG THE MOORS, A BASHAW IN THE SERVICE OF THE GRAND TURK, AND =Died at last in his own House in Hanover Square.= A NARRATIVE IN OLD-FASHIONED ENGLISH. ATTEMPTED BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1863. [_The right of Translation is reserved._] LONDON: SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET. TO ALEXANDER MUNRO, =Sculptor=, THIS BOOK, IN TOKEN OF SINCERE AND ADMIRING FRIENDSHIP, IS CORDIALLY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. IN the last century--and many centuries before the last; but it is about the eighteenth that I am specially speaking--long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his native habits all unlearnt, and his native tongue more than half forgotten. Even the Grand Tour, with all that money could purchase in the way of couriers and post-horses, to expedite matters for my Lord, his chaplain, his courier, and his dancing master, took as many years as it now does months to accomplish. There were no young novelists in those days to make a flying-trip to the Gaboon country, to ascertain whether the stories told by former tourists about shooting gorillas w
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