Into the Primitive - 1 - Robert Ames Bennet

“It Can’t Be that You Want to Go Back to All
Those Society Shams, After You’ve Seen Real Life!”

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

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]