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An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Ordeal [from Life in the Desert or Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa, translated from the French by Mr. C. D. Shapley]

du Couret, I. "The Ordeal [from Life in the Desert or Recollections of Travel in Asia and Africa, translated from the French by Mr. C. D. Shapley]." New-York Saturday Press, September 18, 1860, 1.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
travelogue
Abstract

This travelogue tells of a series of challenges the narrator must pass through in order to be trusted by the Nagib of an African kingdom. The main character narrowly avoids death several times only to be confronted by a new perilous situation.

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