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Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Pirates of the Red Sea

by Bracebridge Hemyng

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About This Book

One of a series of Jack Harkaway books from the Five Cent Wide Awake Library.

21

Chapters

~252 min

Est. Listening Time

English

Language

2.0

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Transcriber’s Notes:

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Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.

CONTENTS

Chapter I. Young Jack Harkaway’s Friends Become Anxious About Him—a Mysterious Message—Harry Girdwood Meets Hunston.

Chapter II. On the Red Sea—The Deep Sea Snake—A Deadly Fight.

Chapter III. The Collision.

Chapter IV. Young Jack Escapes One Danger Only to Fall Into Another.

Chapter V. The Attack on the Calabar.

Chapter VI. Still the Gold Flows in.

THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY

Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. as Second Class Matter.

No. 1334. {COMPLETE}

FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 29 West 26th St., N. Y. New York. August 27, 1897. Issued Every Friday.

{PRICE 5 CENTS.}

Vol. II.

Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1897, by FRANK TOUSEY, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

Young Jack Harkaway FIGHTING THE PIRATES OF THE RED SEA.

By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG.

The cavernous jaws opened wide. There was a hissing sound like a locomotive blowing off steam. Now Harry saw his chance. He was not slow in taking it. Extracting two dynamite shells from his coat pocket, he cast them one after the other into the snake’s mouth.

Inset: Young Jack a prisoner on the Pirate Ship

The Subscription Price of the Five Cent Wide Awake Library by the year is $2.50; $1.25 per six months, post-paid. Address FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 29 West 26th Street, New York.

Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Pirates of the Red Sea.

By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG,

Author of “Young Jack Harkaway in Arabia,” “Young Jack Harkaway in the Wilds of Siberia,” “Young Jack Harkaway in Armenia,” “Young Jack Harkaway Fighting the Slave Traders of the Soudan,” “Young Jack Harkaway in Cuba,” etc., etc.

CHAPTER I. YOUNG JACK HARKAWAY’S FRIENDS BECOME ANXIOUS ABOUT HIM—A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE—HARRY GIRDWOOD MEETS HUNSTON.

Harry Girdwood, Young Jack Harkaway’s old and particular chum, Mrs. Harkaway and Mole, the great professor, and Monday, the ex-prince of Limbi, were in the City of Mecca.

Young Jack had been missing for some days.

They were greatly concerned about him.

All their inquiries had failed to elicit any information respecting him.

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