CONTAINING STORIES OF ADVENTURES ON LAND, SEA AND IN THE AIR.
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| No. 84. | NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 1904. | Price 5 Cents. |
THE ABANDONED COUNTRY;
OR,
Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent.
By “NONAME.”
CHAPTER I.
A WONDERFUL TALE.
“So you think the earth has been thoroughly explored, and that there is no such thing as an undiscovered continent, do you?” asked Percy Randall, as he lit a cigar and seated himself comfortably in a chair in the office of Frank Reade, Jr., for a social chat.
The young inventor, who hardly needs an introduction to the reader, so well is he known the world over, turned from his desk and regarded his visitor with a quizzical smile.
“Still at that old theory, Randall?” he said. “I thought you had discarded it after that last expedition of yours.”
Randall, a bronzed, athletic man of thirty years, but with heaps of experience as a globe-trotter and explorer, winced, but replied lightly: