The Jungle Trappers: A Tale of the Indian Jungle (Classic Reprint)

February night in the far East. It was the period of the monsoon, and that unpleasant trade wind, blowing with hot and clammy breath over the province of Bengal, over jungle and plain and stream, made life oppressive to the inhabitants of the great city of Calcutta, whether they dwelt in the fashionable neighbourhood of the Circular Road or in the squalid outlying suburbs. Between the two, in the densely-populated native quarter that was the Black Town of earlier days, a low hovel of bamboo and plastered mud stood midway along a narrow and unpaved street. It differed in no wise from hundreds of others in the vicinity, save that the door had been strengthened with extra beams. It contained two small rooms, both on the same floor, and in the outer one of these an English lad of eighteen, tall and vigorous for his age, was sitting with his elbows propped on a table and his chin supported by his hands. A book lay open before him, and a lamp filled with cocoanut oil shed a dim and flickering light. He appeared to be reading, but his thoughts had gone astray from the printed pages, which were blurred and meaningless to him.
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