CONTENTS

Chapter I: Buried Treasure I

Chapter II: The Jilt I

Chapter III: Explorers of the Dawn I

Chapter IV: A Merry Interlude I

Chapter V: Freedom I

Chapter VI: D'ye Ken John Peel? I

Chapter VII: Granfa I

Chapter VIII: Noblesse Oblige I

Chapter IX: The Cobbler And His Wife I

Chapter X: The New Day I

***Transcriber's Notes: The partial phrase–"Child, it shall not be done," consoled the–appears naturally in the original version on page 191 (Chapter VII, section II), and in a printer's error, is inserted between two halves of a hyphenated word on page 204; the latter was omitted. The use of hyphens in words was made consistent throughout. Variant spelling and dialect was faithfully preserved.***

Explorers of the Dawn

NEW BORZOI NOVELS SPRING, 1922

Wanderers
Knut Hamsun

Men of Affairs
Roland Pertwee

The Fair Rewards
Thomas Beer

I Walked in Arden
Jack Crawford

Guest the One-eyed
Gunnar Gunnarsson

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

The Longest Journey
E. M. Forster

The Soul of a Child
Edwin BjÖrkman

Cytherea
Joseph Hergesheimer

Explorers of the Dawn
Mazo de la Roche

The White Kami
Edward Alden Jewell

Explorers of the Dawn

by Mazo de la Roche
With a Foreword by
Christopher Morley

New York
Alfred A Knopf
1922

Published February, 1922
Second Printing, March, 1922
Third Printing, May, 1922

Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper supplied by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

But a short while ago, A. de la R. laughed with me over the adventures of these little fellows. To the memory of that happy laughter I dedicate the book.

M. de la R.