Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
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BY G. NORWAY.
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_THE LOSS OF JOHN HUMBLE:_
What Led to It, and what Came of It. By G. NORWAY. With 8 full-page Illustrations by JOHN SCHOeNBERG. Crown 8vo, cloth elegant, olivine edges, $1.50.
John Humble, an orphan, is sent to sea with his Uncle Rolf, the captainof the _Erl King_, but in the course of certain adventures the boy isleft behind at Portsmouth. He escapes to a Norwegian vessel, the _Thor_,which is driven from her course in a voyage to Hammerfest, and wreckedon a desolate shore. The survivors experience the miseries of a longsojourn in the Arctic circle, but ultimately, with the aid of somefriendly but thievish Lapps, they succeed in making their way to areindeer station and so southward to Tornea and home again.
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