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Title: Adventure
Author: Jack London
Release Date: April 25, 2005 [eBook #1163]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1911 Thomas Nelson and Sons edition by David Price,
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ADVENTURE
"We are those fools who could not rest
In the dull earth we left behind,
But burned with passion for the West,
And drank strange frenzy from its wind.
The world where wise men live at ease
Fades from our unregretful eyes,
And blind across uncharted seas
We stagger on our enterprise."
"THE SHIP OF FOOLS."
CHAPTER I--SOMETHING TO BE DONE
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed,
black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and
stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular
block of carved wood three inches in diameter.
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