Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 328 — page 1: what you’re looking at

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ALAM ut ABU itt ne iii _ ~ COPYRIGHTED IN !I886S5,8vY BEADLE & ADAMS. a —_—— | —_ CHAPTER I, THE TORTURES OF THE LOST. THE Rio San Saba, Texas, is a branch of the Rio Colorado; the point of junction of the two rivers, being some three hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Not more than ten miles from the confluence of these streams, there is an ex- tensive horse-shoe bend in the San Saba, which is fully a half-mile across; the swell of the bend being to the eastward. The eastern bank of the river is rocky: in- deed an almost inaccessible cliff, some sixty feet in hight, forms the east side of the San Saba at the swell in question; this cliff being honey- combed with caves, within which hive thou- sands of swarms of bees. There is no portion of the American Continent that is richer in varied flora than that along the prairies which border either side of this some- what noted stream; and, as may be supposed, the bottom-lands teem with game of kinds known in that latitude. _ But in no section are black bears to be found in such numbers, from the fact that the bees mi- grate in swarms from the caves, and hive in every hollow-tree in the bottom-timber. Their little ghes being 6g genes robbed by Bruin, as ma imagined, his meat is generally juic and delictors . acest ter The big bend, we have mentioned, was a per- Aaa = ig 3 oo — = = FS FFx3 \ a TLE IA LILA VA LT fp SVS, / > rte ————_ TT -_—- + — -—-—— — . CLass MAIL RATES. No. 328 Ten Cents a Copy. 98 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y., Februrary 4, 1885. -- — a - -~- = da ee hed 3 =- | , " ie 2 oo —< . LAS . oO | a ‘‘ CLUTCHING A BRAVE WITH EACH HAND, BY THE HAIR OF THE HEAD, HE SPRUNG FROM THE CLIFF—A PIERCING, HORRIBLE YELL SHOOTING FROM HIS LIPS?" EGomichoo cS