Chapter I: Front Matter

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=2. The Conscript.=
=3. The Great Invasion of France.=
=4. The Blockade.=
=5. The States-General, 1789.*=
=6. The Country in Danger, 1792.*=
=7. Waterloo.=
=8. The Illustrious Dr. Matheus.*=
=9. Stories of the Rhine.*=
=10. Friend Frits.*=
=11. The Alsatian Schoolmaster.*=
=12. The Polish Jew.*=
=13. Master Daniel Rock.=
=14. War.=
=15. Year One of the Republic, 1793.*=
=16. Citizen Bonaparte, 1794–1815.=
=17. Confessions of a Clarionet Player.*=
=18. Campaign in Kabylia.=
=19. The Man Wolf.=
=20. The Wild Huntsman.=

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STIRRING SCENES

IN

SAVAGE LANDS.

AN ACCOUNT OF

THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, HABITS AND RECREATIONS, PEACEFUL AND
WARLIKE, OF THE UNCIVILISED WORLD.

BY

JAMES GREENWOOD,
AUTHOR OF “WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD,”
“A NIGHT IN A WORKHOUSE,” ETC.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE WILD MAN AT HOME;

OR,

_Pictures of Life in Savage Lands_.

ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS.