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The Last Camp-fire.—Indian Devils.—Bruin’s Boxing-Match.—The Raft Rivals

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE The Camp on Beardsley Brook (_Frontispiece_). “I could hear the Animal plunging in Pursuit” 19 “Laboriously, very Deliberately, I got My Sight” 32 “I was forced to leap Desperately” 48 “With the next Thrust I slid like Lightning down the Middle Channel” 78 Bruin and the Cook 83 “I emptied My Revolvers rapidly, and half a dozen Animals dropped” 94 “It seemed to strike Him as decidedly Queer” 140 “From a Giant Limb overhead Her Long Tawny Body flashed in the Sunlight” 199 “At Last He looked Upward, and saw the Hunter” 221 “Mad with Pain and Fury, He sprang” 249 “Desperately I surged on the Pole” 258 “Tamang came leaping Past with the Bear at His Heels” 303 Saved by a Hornets’ Nest 313 Bruin’s Boxing Match 335 “Slowly battling with the Waves, Jake and His Precious Burden drew Near the Raft” 346

AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE.