Penny Dreadfuls, 1901 · page 191 of 272
In Search of an Unknown Race — page 191: what you’re looking at
A restored page from Penny Dreadfuls, 1901. Page through the whole issue in the reader above.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
VAN, 199 was Van Briscoe, who of course had purchased only an outfit for the voyage, preferring to replenish his ward- robe suitably on arrival in New York. But the French have a saying that ‘‘it is the unex- pected which always happens,” and it would seem as though in Van Briscoe's particular case this was indeed true. Gomichbooks (ele)