NEW YORK AND LONDON
THE AUTHORS AND NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
1906

Copyright 1906 by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Entered at Stationers' Hall
All rights reserved

Composition and Electrotyping by
J. J. Little & Co.
Printed and bound by the
Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. [A West Coast Welcome]
II. [Introduces Miss Laura Slade]
III. [The King who Stopped the Roads]
IV. [The Beach by Moonlight]
V. [Events at Malla-Nulla]
VI. [The Coming of the Okky-Men]
VII. [The Invisible Fire]
VIII. [Presents the Head of the Firm]
IX. [Navigation of Dog's-Leg Creek]
X. [Envoys in Council]
XI. [Again Presents the Head of the Firm]
XII. [Exhibits Antiseptics]
XIII. [At the Liverpool End]
XIV. [Tin Hill: The Journey]
XV. [Tin Hill: The Mine]
XVI. [The King's Bounty]
XVII. [Kate Sends a Cablegram]
XVIII. [Carter Makes A Purchase]
XIX. [Senhor Cascaes]
XX. [Major Meredith]
XXI. [The Feeling on the Coast]
XXII. [A Fisherman and his Catch]
XXIII. [The Song of Speed]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[These explained, in bold, clear tones that they were the chief ju-ju men of all Africa] . . . . . . Frontispiece

[He fired on and on with deadly speed and accuracy, till the heated barrels of the repeaters burned Laura Slade's hands]

[Then, as the crocodile jumped once more, he threw up the rifle and shot it under the left foreleg, where the protective plates are absent]