CHAPTER L.
MR. MOLE'S TROUBLES AGAIN—AN ADVENTURE WITH NERO—LAND HO!—THE
FIRST VIEW OF AUSTRALIA.
Let us draw the curtain.
The particulars given in the preceding chapter must be as unpleasant to the readers as they were to Harkaway, to Jefferson, to Dick Harvey, and beyond all to Harry Girdwood and young Jack.
They are not agreeable matters to relate, and we gladly draw the veil upon such a scene.
Once in the care of Doctor Anderson, the prisoner was tended carefully, and the doctor's best skill was employed in bringing him back to health.
But his convalescence was a long time in being brought about, for not only was he cruelly maimed, but, to use the doctor's own expression—
"The scourge had knocked him to bits in health generally."
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