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Title: Nic Revel
A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land

Author: George Manville Fenn

Illustrator: W.H.C. Groome

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21357]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Nic Revel; A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land, by George
Manville Fenn.

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Nic Revel is brought up on a small landed estate in Devon. The date is
somewhere in the middle of the nineteenth century. There is a very good
salmon pool on the estate, but it is often used by poachers, which
greatly annoys the Revel family. Eventually they have a great fight
there, in which they had arranged to be supported by men from a vessel
of the Royal Navy.

Nic is wounded and is mistaken for a poacher by the naval party, who
press-gang the poachers. When they reach America, Nic is still hardly
conscious, and not capable of much work. All the less able poachers are
then sold by the ship to an American slave dealer, who sells them to a
settler who lives a long way up a river.

After a journey to the farm they find that they are given very hard work
to do, and not fed very well. And of course Nic and one of the
poachers, who has become a good friend of his, want to get back to
Devon. After many trials and tribulations they eventually escape.

George Manville Fenn is a master of suspense, and this book is a very
good example of his work.

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NIC REVEL; A WHITE SLAVE'S ADVENTURES IN ALLIGATOR LAND, BY GEORGE
MANVILLE FENN.

CHAPTER ONE.

CAPTAIN REVEL IS CROSS.

"Late again, Nic," said Captain Revel.

"Very sorry, father."

"Yes, you always are `very sorry,' sir. I never saw such a fellow to
sleep. Why, when I was a lad of your age--let's see, you're just
eighteen."

"Yes, father, and very hungry," said the young man, with a laugh and a
glance at the breakfast-table.

"Always are very hungry. Why, when I wa