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The Boy Fortune Hunters in China

L. Frank Baum

The story follows a group of young boys, led by Sam Steele, as they embark on a sea voyage filled with intrigue and excitement that leads them to China.

"The Boy Fortune Hunters in China" by Floyd Akers is an adventure novel. The story follows a group of young boys, led by Sam Steele, as they embark on a sea voyage filled with intrigue and excitement that leads them to China.

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The sinking of the first-class passenger steamship Karamata Maru in the neighborhood of Hawaii on June 17, 1908, has been the subject of so much newspaper comment that doubtless the reader imagines he knows all the circumstances connected with the fatal affair. But I have carefully read these newspaper reports and am astonished to find them quite perverted and unreliable, the result of carelessness or ignorance on the part of correspondents, the desire of officials to shield themselves from blame and the tendency of editors to amplify scant material into three-column articles with numerous “scare heads.”

I may well speak with authority in this connection, because it was our ship, the Seagull, which first arrived at the scene of the disaster and rescued the passengers and crew of the ill-fated Karamata Maru from their imminent peril So I shall tell you the story in my own way, as it has an important bearing on the extraordinary events that afterward took place—events which have led me to write this book, and place on record a series of adventures so remarkable as to have been seldom if ever equalled.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. A Sea Tragedy.
  2. 02Chapter II. Prince Kai Lun Pu.
  3. 03Chapter III. Smiling at Death.
  4. 04Chapter IV. A Startling Proposition.
  5. 05Chapter V. The Halls of His Ancestors.
  6. 06Chapter VI. “Old Death’s-Head.”
  7. 07Chapter VII. We Become Conspirators.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. Dr. Gaylord’s Proposal.
  9. 09Chapter IX. We Outwit Mai Lo.
  10. 10Chapter X. An Unheeded Warning.
  11. 11Chapter XI. An Unexpected Desertion.
  12. 12Chapter XII. Mai Lo Makes a Discovery.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. The Elephant Train.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. The Chief Eunuch.
  15. 15Chapter XV. The Royal House of Kai.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. The Governor Shows His Teeth.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Wi-To Proves Faithful.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. The Sacred Apes of Kai.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. The Pearl of Kai-Nong.
  20. 20Chapter XX. “Three Little Maids from School.”
  21. 21Chapter XXI. An Unlawful Interview.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. The Secret Passage.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Treasure of the Ancients.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The Royal Cabinet.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. The Trap Is Sprung.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. A Fearful Encounter.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. The Battle in the Corridor.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. The Vengeance of the Ruby Scimitar.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. The Severed Head.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Pool of the Devil-Fish.
  31. 31Up-to-the-Minute Boys’ Books
  32. 32Good Books for Girls
  33. 33Transcriber’s Notes

About this edition

Author
L. Frank Baum
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
198 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers