Into the Primitive

INTO
THE PRIMITIVE


By ROBERT AMES BENNET


AUTHOR OF

“For the White Christ,” “Thyra,” Etc.

emblem

With Frontispiece in Colors
By ALLEN T. TRUE


A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers            New York


Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1908


Published April 11, 1908
Second Edition, May 9, 1908
Third Edition, Aug. 1, 1908


  To the man and to the beast;

To the girl, the snake, the blossom;

  To fever and fire and fear;

To hurricane blast and storm within;

  To bloody fang and venomed tooth;

To love, to hate, to pain, to joy,–

    For of such is Life,

  In the Primitive–and out.


By Mr. Bennet


FOR THE WHITE CHRIST. A Story
of the Days of Charlemagne. Illustrations
in full color by the Kinneys. Twentieth
thousand.
$1.50.

A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers


CONTENTS
I. Wave-tossed and Castaway 11
II. Worse than Wilderness 18
III. The Worth of Fire 29
IV. A Journey in Desolation 40
V. The Re-ascent of Man 56
VI. Man and Gentleman 67
VII. Around the Headland 76
VIII. The Club Age 87
IX. The Leopards’ Den 105
X. Problems in Woodcraft 123
XI. A Despoiled Wardrobe 139
XII. Survival of the Fittest 147
XIII. The Mark of the Beast 159
XIV. Fever and Fire and Fear 174
XV. With Bow and Club 191
XVI. The Savage Manifest 201
XVII. The Serpent Strikes 212
XVIII. The Eavesdropper Caught 226
XIX. An Ominous Lull 235
XX. The Hurricane Blast 251
XXI. Wreckage and Salvage 263
XXII. Understanding and Misunderstanding 272
XXIII. The End of the World 284
XXIV. A Lion Leads Them 299
XXV. In Double Salvation 314

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