. Harper's young people . VOL. 169. PCBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Tuesday, January 23, 1883. Copyright, 1883, by HABPKB A BHUTHKBS. $ per Year, in A CATASTROPHE. AN OPEN-AIR PRISON ; OR, CAPTAIX UARCOURTS ADVENTURE IX THE DAVID KER. M off to the Terai for a month. Then youre a very lucky fellow, thats one way certainly Captain James Harcourt, of the—th Native Bengal Infantry, might well he consider-ed lucky. He was the keenest hunter in his regiment,and the district where he was going to spend his months leave of absence was o
. Harper's young people . VOL. 169. PCBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Tuesday, January 23, 1883. Copyright, 1883, by HABPKB A BHUTHKBS. $ per Year, in A CATASTROPHE. AN OPEN-AIR PRISON ; OR, CAPTAIX UARCOURTS ADVENTURE IX THE DAVID KER. M off to the Terai for a month. Then youre a very lucky fellow, thats one way certainly Captain James Harcourt, of the—th Native Bengal Infantry, might well he consider-ed lucky. He was the keenest hunter in his regiment,and the district where he was going to spend his months leave of absence was onewhich is a kind of happyhunting ground in theeyes of every East Indiansportsman, native or Euro-pean. The Terai, whither ourgallant Captain was bound,is really nothing more thanone of the ledges or stepsof the great mountain stairof the Himalaya, the high-est range in the this one ledge is broadenough to cover the spaceof an entire province, andto contain forests in whicha man might wander fordays without finding hisway out. These forestsswarm with game of everykind, and are specially fa-mous for producing the fin-est breed of tigers in allIndia; and many a nativeprince has pai
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