,
And Other Writers.

_WITH THREE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. GILLETT_

LONDON

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 Bouverie Street & 65 St. Paul's Churchyard

CONTENTS

PAGE
I

A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE WITH HYENAS 5
_By C. Randolph Lichfield_

II

THE VEGA VERDE MINE 10
_By Charles Edwardes_

III

A VERY NARROW SHAVE 20
_By John Lang_

IV

AN ADVENTURE IN ITALY 31
_By J. Kinchin Smith_

V

THE TAPU-TREE 38
_By A. Ferguson_

VI

SOME PANTHER STORIES 49
_By Various Writers_

VII

A MIDNIGHT RIDE ON A CALIFORNIAN RANCH 69
_By A. F. Walker_

VIII

O'DONNELL'S REVENGE 84
_By Frank Maclean_

IX

MY ADVENTURE WITH A LION 105
_By Algernon Blackwood_

X

THE SECRET CAVE OF HYDAS 116
_By F. Barford_

XI

AN ADVENTURE IN THE HEART OF MALAY-LAND 155
_By Alexander Macdonald, F.R.G.S._

XII

A WEEK-END ADVENTURE 171
_By William Webster_

XIII

THE DEFLECTED COMPASS 193
_By Alfred Colbeck_

XIV

IN PERIL IN AFRICA 214
_By Maurice Kerr_

XV

KEEPING THE TRYST 227
_By E. Cockburn Reynolds_

XVI

WHO GOES THERE? 245
_By Rowland W. Cater_

XVII

A DROWNING MESSMATE 257
_By A. Lee Knight_

XVIII

THE PILOT OF PORT CREEK 266
_By Burnett Fallow_

ADVENTURES IN MANY LANDS

I

A TERRIBLE ADVENTURE WITH HYENAS

There are many mighty hunters, and most of them can tell of many very
thrilling adventures personally undergone with wild beasts; but probably
none of them ever went through an experience equalling that which Arthur
Spencer, the famous trapper, suffered in the wilds of Africa.

As the right-hand man of Carl Hagenbach, the great Hamburg dealer in
wild animals, for whom Spencer trapped some of the finest and rarest
beasts ever seen in captivity, thrilling adventures were everyday
occurrences to him. The trapper's life is infinitely more exciting and
dangerous than the hunter's, inasmuch as the latter hunts to kill, while
the trapper hunts to capture, and the