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Title: Explorers of the Dawn

Author: Mazo de la Roche

Release Date: May 2, 2008 [EBook #25283]

Language: English

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Explorers of the Dawn

_NEW BORZOI NOVELS SPRING, 1922_

WANDERERS
_Knut Hamsun_

MEN OF AFFAIRS
_Roland Pertwee_

THE FAIR REWARDS
_Thomas Beer_

I WALKED IN ARDEN
_Jack Crawford_

GUEST THE ONE-EYED
_Gunnar Gunnarsson_

THE GARDEN PARTY
_Katherine Mansfield_

THE LONGEST JOURNEY
_E. M. Forster_

THE SOUL OF A CHILD
_Edwin Bjoerkman_

CYTHEREA
_Joseph Hergesheimer_

EXPLORERS OF THE DAWN
_Mazo de la Roche_

THE WHITE KAMI
_Edward Alden Jewell_

Explorers of the Dawn

by Mazo de la Roche
With a Foreword by
Christopher Morley

New York
Alfred A Knopf
1922

_Published February, 1922_
_Second Printing, March, 1922_
_Third Printing, May, 1922_

_Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton,
N. Y. Paper supplied by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y. Bound by
the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass._

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_But a short while ago, A. de la R. laughed with me over the
adventures of these little fellows. To the memory of that happy
laughter I dedicate the book._

_M. de la R._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I BURIED TREASUR