Prester John

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Prester John by John Buchan

TO
LIONEL PHILLIPS

Time, they say, must the best of us capture,
And travel and battle and gems and gold
No more can kindle the ancient rapture,
For even the youngest of hearts grows old.
But in you, I think, the boy is not over;
So take this medley of ways and wars
As the gift of a friend and a fellow-lover
Of the fairest country under the stars.

J. B.

1. Chapter I: The Man on the Kirkcaple Shore
2. Chapter II: Furth! Fortune!
3. Chapter III: Blaauwildebeestefontein
4. Chapter IV: My Journey to the Winter-veld
5. Chapter V: Mr Wardlaw Has a Premonition
6. Chapter VI: The Drums Beat at Sunset
7. Chapter VII: Captain Arcoll Tells a Tale
8. Chapter VIII: I Fall in Again with the Reverend John Laputa
9. Chapter IX: The Store at Umvelos'
10. Chapter X: I Go Treasure-hunting
11. Chapter XI: The Cave of the Rooirand
12. Chapter XII: Captain Arcoll Sends a Message
13. Chapter XIII: The Drift of the Letaba
14. Chapter XIV: I Carry the Collar of Prester John
15. Chapter XV: Morning in the Berg
16. Chapter XVI: Inanda's Kraal
17. Chapter XVII: A Deal and Its Consequences
18. Chapter XVIII: How a Man May Sometimes Put His Trust in a Horse
19. Chapter XIX: Arcoll's Shepherding
20. Chapter XX: My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
21. Chapter XXI: I Climb the Crags a Second Time
22. Chapter XXII: A Great Peril and a Great Salvation
23. Chapter XXIII: My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied

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