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The Rover Boys in the Jungle

by Arthur M Winfield

INTRODUCTION

My dear boys:

This volule,” is the third story of the ”Rover Boys Series,” and while a complete tale in itself, forms a companion story to ”The Rover Boys at School” and ”The Rover Boys on the Ocean,” which preceded it

In the fors of dick, To a remarkable chase on the Atlantic Ocean In the present story the scene is shi+fted from the military academy, where the boys are cadets, to the wilds of Africa, whither the lads with their uncle have gone to look for Anderson Rover, the boys' father, who had disappeared e from the sea causes the party to leave this country, and they journey to Africa, little drea adventures which await theainst their many perils, and what the outcoes that follow to explain

In conclusion, let iven the previous volumes of this series, and I sincerely trust that the present tale merits a continuance of your support

Affectionately and sincerely yours,

EDWARD STRATEMEYER November 10, 1899

THE ROVER BOYS IN THE JUNGLE

CHAPTER I

UNPLEASANT NEWS

”Back to Putnaain, Tolad of it,” returned dick Rover ”I can tell you, the acadeht you are, dick,” caest of the three brothers ”I'd rather be here than up to the farm, even if Uncle Randolph and Aunt Martha are kind and considerate The farm is so slow--”

”While here we have our full share of adventures and more,”

finished Tom ”I wonder ill happen to us this terhty busy, didn't they?”

”I' for any more outside adventures,” said dick, with a serious shake of his head ”Our enemies have been disposed of, and I don't want, to hear of or see theain”

”Nor I--but we'll hear of them, nevertheless, mark my words

The Baxters won't leave us rest They are a hard crowd, and Buddy Girk is just as bad,” finished To term at Putnam Hall Military Academy, and the three Rover boys had just coers, the general-utility ton, Fred Garrison, Larry Colby, and a number of others, had already arrived, so the boys did not lack for coenial Captain Putnareeted each with a hearty handshake, and a pleasant word also ca, the head assistant

For the benefit of those who have not read the other books of this series, entitled ”The Rover Boys at School” and ”The Rover Boys on the Ocean,” I would state that the Rover boys were three in nuest, as already mentioned Whether the boys were orphans or not was a question which could not be answered Upon the death of their ical expert, had left the boys in the care of his brother, Randolph Rover, an eccentric gentle Mr Anderson Rover had then journeyed to the western coast of Africa, hoping to locate soold ed into the interior with a nuh Mr Randolph Rover hadhis whereabouts

All of the boys were bright, fun-loving fellows, and to keep them out of mischief Randolph Rover had sent them off to Putnam Hall, a first class school, located soa, in New York State Here the lads had made numerous friends and incidentally a number of enemies

Of the friends several have already been named, and others will come to the front as our story proceeds Of the enemies the principal ones were Arnold Baxter, a man who had tried, years before, to defraud the boys' father out of a gold mine in the West, and his son Dan, who had once been the bully of Putna scamp named Buddy Girk, who had once robbed dick of his watch Both of these ed with an important robbery in Albany, and the Rover boys had aided in bringing the ed with the abduction of Dom Stanhope Dom, as dick Rover's dearest friend, had been carried off by the directions of Josiah Crabtree, a former teacher of Putnaet his hands on the hter, but the abduction had been nipped in the bud and Josiah Crabtree had fled, leaving Dan Baxter to shoulder the blame of the transaction

How Dora was restored to her mother and what happened afterward, old readers already know