"It is very curious anyhow, uncle, and beats ghost stories into fits."
"I like it better, certainly," one of the girls said, "for we can go to bed without being afraid of dreaming about it."
"Well, you must not talk any more now. Off to bed, off to bed," Colonel Harley said, "or I shall get into terrible disgrace with your fathers and mothers, who have been looking very gravely at me for the last three-quarters of an hour."
Transcriber's Note:
A [Table of Contents] that did not appear in the original publication has been added.
A second story, [A PIPE OF MYSTERY], appears after the end of Guy in the Jungle in the publication of the book from which this transcription has been made. The page numbering does not continue from the first story, indicating that perhaps plates from a different book may have been used, possibly from "Among Malay Pirates—A Tale of Adventure and Peril" by G. A. Henty, published also by M. A. Donohue & Company.
The words "[weazened][1] and "[dhoolie]", alternative spelling for burnous/burnouse, and alternative hyphenation in today/to-day and eggshell/egg-shell have been retained as they appear in the original publication.
Changes have been made as follows:
| Page | |
| 3 | Comma added [Copyrighted 1890,] |
| 7 | Comma removed [and to] |
| 9 | distingussh changed to [distinguish] |
| 10 | Comma changed to fullstop in [sir.] |
| 12 | Comma added after [Torres,] |
| "in" changed to [is] | |
| 18 | "gold-dust,aromatic" changed to [gold-dust, aromatic] |
| 21 | "frrm" changed to [from] |
| 31 | "proced" changed to [proceed] |
| 36 | "acident" changed to [accident] |
| 42 | "demnostration" changed to [demonstration] |
| 45 | "Kakar's" changed to [Makar's] |
| 46 | "appearedover" changed to [appeared over] |
| "sand,hills" changed to [sand-hills] | |
| 49 | "Markar" changed to [Makar"] with [closing quotation mark] |
| "know" changed to [knew] | |
| 50 | "aiike" be changed to [alike] |
| 53 | [filed at a slow trot over the sandy plain in a southerly], which originally appeared after [At the last] has been moved to later in the paragraph after "the line of camels" |
| 55 | "layind" changed to [laying] |
| 61 | Removed comma from [with, hatred] |
| 71 | "invaders.," changed to [invaders.] |
| 106 | fiends. ages." changed to [fiends."] |
| 112 | "Arican" changed to [African] |
| 128 | "it?" changed to [it!] |
| "immediately" changed to [immediately.] | |
| 129 | "ge" get more changed to [we] |
| 134 | "then" changed to [then?] |
| 136 | "Makaol" changed to [Makalo] |
| 141 | "it seffect" changed to [its effect] |
| 156 | "Arthus" changed to [Arthur] |
| 174 | "montony" changed to [monotony] |
| 183 | Removed open double quotation before [Melton's] |
| 226 | "huried" changed to [hurried] |
| 243 | Added open single quotation mark to ['Oh,'] |
| 253 | Added quotation to ["I see a cavern] |
| 263 | Removed quotation from [longer. I] |
| 292 | "Makolo" changed to [Makalo] |
| 293 | "burman" changed to [Burman] |
| 213 | "half cellar" changed to [half-cellar] |