Four Young Explorers

Four Young Explorers

Oliver Optic, Noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator (1822-1897)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Dedication

- Preface

- The Borneo Hunters And Explorers

- A Voyage Up The Sarawak River

- Something About Borneo And Its People

- A Speculation In Crocodiles

- A Hundred And Eight Feet Of Crocodile

- The Voyage Up The Sadong To Simujan

- A Spirited Battle With Orang Outangs

- A Performance Of Very Agile Gibbons

- A Visit To A Dyak Long House

- The Manners And Customs Of The Dyaks

- Steamboating Through A Great Forest

- A Formidable Obstruction Removed

- The Captain's Astounding Proposition

- Down The Simujan And Up The Sarawak

- On The Voyage To Point Cambodia

- An Exciting Race In The China Sea

- The End Of The Voyage To Bangkok

- Louis's Double Dinner Argument

- A Hasty Glance At Bangkok

- A View Of Cochin China And Siam

- On The Voyage To Saigon

- In The Dominions Of The French

- A Lively Evening At The Hotel

- Tonquin And Sights In Cholon

- Several Hilarious Frolics

- The Voyage Across The China Sea

- Some Account Of The Philippines

- The Description Of An Earthquaky City

- Going On Shore In Manila

- Excursions On Shore And Up The Pasig

- Half A Lecture On Chinese Subjects

- The Continuation Of The Lecture

- The Conclusion Of The Lecture

- Sight Seeing In Hong Kong And Canton

- Shang Hai And The Yang Tsze Chiang

- The Walls And Temples Of Pekin