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Title: Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895

Author: Various

Release Date: July 15, 2010 [EBook #33169]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HARPER'S ROUND TABLE]

Copyright, 1895, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1895. FIVE CENTS A
COPY.

VOL. XVI.--NO. 833. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.

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[Illustration]

HARRY BORDEN'S NAVAL MONSTER.

BY W. J. HENDERSON.

It was a bright and beautiful morning in June, 1927. The war between
Venezuela and England had been in progress just three weeks, and every
one was wondering why the big monarchy had not whipped the little
republic off the face of the earth. But the resources of the South
American country had been underestimated, and so had the immense
difficulties which confronted England in her endeavor to carry on an
offensive war at an almost inaccessible distance from her most
trustworthy sources of supplies, and in a climate which was formidable
to her men. She had succeeded in landing a small force of trained
soldiers, fresh from her latest campaign against the Ameer of
Afghanistan, who had set up a new boundary-line beyond Herat, and was
consequently in hot water with both England and Russia.

These trained Indian curry-eaters had penetrated a vast forest in the
interior and had never come out, and it was currently reported that half
of them had perished in a swamp, and the other half had been destroyed
by fevers and cobras. A strong fleet, under command of Vice-Admiral Sir
Wallace Bruce, had been scattered by adverse winds, and two of the ships
had fallen in with powerful Venezuelan armor-clads, and had been most
impertinently sent to the bottom. Others had sunk three Venezuelan
war-ships, but the little republic had three better ones afloat inside
of a week, and experts said that they looked very French.

The war had broken out over England's high-