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"Bones": Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
The narrative unfolds in a fictional African territory, primarily focusing on the character of Mr. Commissioner Sanders and his dealings with local chiefs and societal tensions.
"Bones": Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country by Edgar Wallace is a novel. The narrative unfolds in a fictional African territory, primarily focusing on the character of Mr. Commissioner Sanders and his dealings with local chiefs and societal tensions.
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You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with the disappearance of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Blowter, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
We know (though this is not in the Blue Books) that Bosambo called together all his petty chiefs and his headmen, from one end of the country to the other, and assembled them squatting expectantly at the foot of the little hillock, where sat Bosambo in his robes of office (unauthorized but no less magnificent), their upturned faces charged with pride and confidence, eloquent of the hold this sometime Liberian convict had upon the wayward and fearful folk of the Ochori.
Now no man may call a palaver of all small chiefs unless he notifies the government of his intention, for the government is jealous of self-appointed parliaments, for when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward.
And since a million and odd square miles of territory may only be governed by a handful of ragged soldiers so long as there is no concerted action against authority, extemporized and spontaneous palavers are severely discouraged.
Contents
- 01"Bones"
- 02Prologue
- 03Sanders—C.m.g.
- 04I
- 05II
- 06III
- 07IV
- 08V
- 09VI
- 10Chapter I
- 11Hamilton of the Houssas
- 12II
- 13III
- 14IV
- 15Chapter II
- 16The Disciplinarians
- 17II
- 18III
- 19Chapter III
- 20The Lost N'bosini
- 21Chapter IV
- 22The Fetish Stick
- 23II
- 24III
- 25Chapter V
- 26A Frontier and a Code
- 27Chapter VI
- 28The Soul of the Native Woman
- 29Chapter VII
- 30The Stranger Who Walked by Night
- 31II
- 32III
- 33IV
- 34Chapter VIII
- 35A Right of Way
- 36II
- 37Chapter IX
- 38The Green Crocodile
- 39II
- 40Chapter X
- 41Henry Hamilton Bones
- 42II
- 43III
- 44IV
- 45Chapter XI
- 46Bones at M'fa
- 47Chapter XII
- 48The Man Who Did Not Sleep
- 49Popular Novels
- 50By
- 51Edgar Wallace
- 52Published By
- 53Ward, Lock & Co., Limited.
- 54In Various Editions.
- 55Made and Printed in Great Britain by Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London.
- 56Transcriber's Notes
About this edition
- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 227 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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