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Title: The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy
A Book for Young and Old

Author: Florence Partello Stuart

Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22407]

Language: English

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The Adventures of Piang
The Moro Jungle Boy

A Book for Young and Old

By Florence Partello Stuart

Illustrated By Ellsworth Young

New York
The Century Co.
1917

Copyright, 1917, by The Century Co.

Copyright, 1916, by David C. Cook Publishing Company Copyright, 1917,
Boys' Life The Boy Scouts Magazine

Published September, 1917

To "Buddy"

CONTENTS

I The Charm Boy 6
II The Floating Island 32
III The Hermit of Ganassi Peak 51
IV The Fire Tree 78
V Riding the Cataract 108
VI The Jungle Menace 129
VII The Secret of the Source 157
VIII The Juramentado Gunboat 193
IX The Bichara 223
X Piang's Triumph 251

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Slowly he swam downward, conscious of a large body moving near
him _Frontispiece_
Rising to his feet, spear poised, he waited 17
His hands closed over something 36
On its neck it supported a weird creature 70
"The boom! We must cut it!" 87
With hands outstretched above his head, he waited for the great
moment 122
Piang reached up on tiptoe to pluck a ripe mango 139
Gracefully the little slave-girl eluded Piang and Sicto 149
Over and over they rolled, splashing and fighting 167
A shrill whistle echoed through the forest 210
"Juramentado! Gobernado!" faintly whispered Piang 227
The water spout caught the eggshell praus in its toils 261

"Do you know the fragrant stillness of the or