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Nor since that fateful hour has the world known otherwise, for, although strange rureat river to be whispered about fro hter of Lafrénière, yet no authentic e found its way out of the vast northern wilderness For nearly one hundred and fifty years history has accepted without question the testimony of the Spanish records The e i of sacred duty to the dead; and his papers, disarranged, ill-written, already yellowed by years, have fallen to e, save only as to the subdivision into chapters, with an occasional substitution for some old-time phrase of its more modern equivalent He who calls himself "Geoffrey Benteen, Gentleman Adventurer," shall tell his own tale

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