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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 296

1889 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle and Adams (Vol. XXII, five cents) features "Govinda, the Tiger-Tamer; or, The American Horseman Abroad" by Captain Frederick Whittaker, an adventure serial. In the opening chapter, "The King of the Jungle," the Rajah Ram Sing hosts a spectacle in Jagpore featuring wild beast combat. When a tigress named Seevah nearly attacks the fat, jeweled Rajah, an English officer called Major Charlton shows courage, though he ultimately defers to a mysterious tiger-tamer named Govinda, a strikingly handsome man in cloth-of-gold who subdues the beast with his whip. Through successive demonstrations—commanding the tigress to retrieve his whip, performing acrobatic feats, and most remarkably, having a young boy named Ali feed the tiger by hand and ride upon it—Govinda proves absolute mastery over the animal, earning the Rajah's approval and the crowd's admiration.

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