Chapter I: Front Matter

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INTO THE PRIMITIVE

By ROBERT AMES BENNET

AUTHOR OF

"For the White Christ," "Thyra," Etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors

By ALLEN T. TRUE

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers--New York

Copyright

A. C. McClurg & Co.

1908

Published April 11, 1908

Second Edition, May 9, 1908

Third Edition, Aug. 1, 1908

_To the man and to the beast;_
_To the girl, the snake, the blossom;_
_To fever and fire and fear;_
_To hurricane blast and storm within;_
_To bloody fang and venomed tooth;_
_To love, to hate, to pain, to joy,--_
_For of such is Life,_
_In the Primitive--and out._

By Mr. Bennet

FOR THE WHITE CHRIST. A Story of the Days of Charlemagne.

Illustrations in full color by the Kinneys. Twentieth thousand. $1.50.

A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers

CONTENTS

I. WAVE-TOSSED AND CASTAWAY 11
II. WORSE THAN WILDERNESS 18
III. THE WORTH OF FIRE 29
IV. A JOURNEY IN DESOLATION 40
V. THE RE-ASCENT OF MAN 56
VI. MAN AND GENTLEMAN 67
VII. AROUND THE HEADLAND 76
VIII. THE CLUB AGE 87
IX. THE LEOPARDS' DEN 105
X. PROBLEMS IN WOODCRAFT 123
XI. A DESPOILED WARDROBE 139
XII. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 147
XIII. THE MARK OF THE BEAST 159
XIV. FEVER AND FIRE AND FEAR 174
XV. WITH BOW AND CLUB 191
XVI. THE SAVAGE MANIFEST 201
XVII. THE SERPENT STRIKES 212
XVIII. THE EAVESDROPPER CAUGHT 226
XIX. AN OMINOUS LULL 235
XX. THE HURRICANE BLAST 251
XXI. WRECKAGE AND SALVAGE 263
XXII. UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING 272
XXIII. THE END OF THE WORLD 284
XXIV. A LION LEADS THEM 299
XXV. IN DOUBLE SALVATION 314

INTO THE PRIMITIVE