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THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADO.

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CHAPTER I. “WILL NO ONE EXPLORE RORAIMA?”[3]

“WILL NO ONE EXPLORE RORAIMA?”[3]

Beneath the verandah of a handsome, comfortable-looking residence near Georgetown, the principal town of British Guiana, a young man sat one morning early in the year 1890, attentively studying a volume that lay open on a small table before him. It was easy to see that he was reading something that was, for him at least, of more than ordinary interest, something that seemed to carry his thoughts far away from the scene around him; for when, presently, he raised his eyes from the book, they looked out straight before him with a gaze that evidently saw nothing of that on which they rested.

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