{"product_id":"2940013221109","title":"THE JUNGLE FUGITIVES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE JUNGLE FUGITIVES\u003cbr\u003e  LOST IN THE WOODS\u003cbr\u003e  IN THE NICK OF TIME\u003cbr\u003e  LOST IN THE SOUTH SEA\u003cbr\u003e  AN UNPLEASANT COMPANION\u003cbr\u003e  A STIRRING INCIDENT\u003cbr\u003e  CYCLONES AND TORNADOES\u003cbr\u003e  LOST IN A BLIZZARD\u003cbr\u003e  THROWING THE RIATA\u003cbr\u003e  A WATERSPOUT\u003cbr\u003e  AN HEROIC WOMAN\u003cbr\u003e  THE WRITING FOUND IN A BOTTLE\u003cbr\u003e  THAT HORNET'S NEST\u003cbr\u003e  A YOUNG HERO\u003cbr\u003e  OVERREACHED\u003cbr\u003e  A BATTLE IN THE AIR\u003cbr\u003e  WHO SHALL EXPLAIN IT?\u003cbr\u003e  A FOOL OF A GENIUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE JUNGLE FUGITIVES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN THE SPRING OF 1857.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll through India, with its fanatical population five times as great as\u003cbr\u003ethat of England, the rumblings of the coming uprising had been heard\u003cbr\u003efor months.  The disaffection had been spreading and taking root.  The\u003cbr\u003eemissaries of the arch-plotters had passed back and forth almost from\u003cbr\u003eend to end of the vast empire, with their messages of hatred and\u003cbr\u003eappeal.  The people were assured that the \"Inglese loge\" were\u003cbr\u003eperfecting their insidious schemes for overthrowing their religion, and\u003cbr\u003ethe faithful everywhere were called upon to crush the infidels in the\u003cbr\u003edust.  The evil seed fell upon the rankest of soil, and grew with a\u003cbr\u003evigor and exuberance that threatened to strangle every other growth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe plot, as agreed upon, was that a general uprising was to take place\u003cbr\u003ethroughout India on the last day of May, 1857, but, as is often the\u003cbr\u003ecase in such far-reaching schemes, the impatience of the mutineers\u003cbr\u003eprecipitated the tremendous tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first serious outbreak took place at Meerut on Sunday, May 10th,\u003cbr\u003ejust three weeks previous to the time set for the general uprising.\u003cbr\u003eThat town, with its population of about 40,000 at that time, lies\u003cbr\u003ethirty-two miles northeast from Delhi, which was to be the capital of\u003cbr\u003ethe resurrected Mogul Empire.  It was the precipitancy of this first\u003cbr\u003erevolt that prevented its fullest success.  The intention was to kill\u003cbr\u003eevery white man, woman and child in the place.  Two regiments were\u003cbr\u003eclamorous for beginning the massacre, but the Eleventh Native Infantry\u003cbr\u003eheld back so persistently that the others became enraged and fired a\u003cbr\u003evolley among them, killing a number.  Thereupon the Eleventh announced\u003cbr\u003ethemselves ready to take their part in the slaughter that was to free\u003cbr\u003eIndia from the execrated \"Inglese loge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeing now for the first time the real peril, the colonel of the\u003cbr\u003eEleventh made an impassioned appeal to the regiment to stand by its\u003cbr\u003ecolors and to take no part in the useless revolt.  While he was\u003cbr\u003espeaking, a volley riddled his body, and he tumbled lifeless from his\u003cbr\u003esaddle.  The Eleventh, however, covered the flight of the other\u003cbr\u003eofficers, but helped to release a thousand prisoners, suffering\u003cbr\u003epunishment for various offenses, and then the hell fire burst forth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe bungalows of the officers, the mess houses of the troops, and all\u003cbr\u003ethe buildings between the native lines and Meerut were fired, and the\u003cbr\u003ewhole became a roaring conflagration, whose glare at night was visible\u003cbr\u003efor miles.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158279733488,"sku":"2940013221109","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013221109_p0.jpg?v=1763578547","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013221109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}