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  "WITH THEIR ARMS STILL BOUND FIRMLY TO THEIR SIDES, THEPRISONERS STUMBLED THROUGH THE FOREST."]

  THE BLUE RAIDER

  A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTHERN SEAS

  BY

  HERBERT STRANG

  ILLUSTRATED BY C. E. BROCK

  HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW TORONTO, MELBOURNE, CAPE TOWN, BOMBAY 1920

  HERBERT STRANG

  _Complete List of Stories_

  ADVENTURES OF DICK TREVANION, THEADVENTURES OF HARRY ROCHESTER, THEA GENTLEMAN AT ARMSA HERO OF LIEGEAIR PATROL, THEAIR SCOUT, THEBARCLAY OF THE GUIDESBLUE RAIDER, THEBOYS OF THE LIGHT BRIGADEBROWN OF MOUKDENBURTON OF THE FLYING CORPSCARRY ONCRUISE OF THE GYRO-CAR, THEFIGHTING WITH FRENCHFLYING BOAT, THEFRANK FORESTERHUMPHREY BOLDJACK HARDYKING OF THE AIRKOBOLORD OF THE SEASMOTOR SCOUT, THEOLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, THEONE OF CLIVE'S HEROESPALM TREE ISLANDROB THE RANGERROUND THE WORLD IN SEVEN DAYSSAMBASETTLERS AND SCOUTSSULTAN JIMSWIFT AND SURETHROUGH THE ENEMY'S LINESTOM BURNABYTOM WILLOUGHBY'S SCOUTSWITH DRAKE ON THE SPANISH MAINWITH HAIG ON THE SOMME

  CONTENTS

  I. A BEACH IN NEW GUINEA II. THE DRUMS III. THE CHIMNEY IV. MR. HAAN V. IN THE TOILS VI. THE TOTEM VII. REMINISCENCES VIII. A RECONNAISSANCE IX. COMPLICATIONS X. THE CAST OF THE DIE XI. THE ORDEAL OF EPHRAIM MEEK XII. THE LEDGE XIII. A FORCED LANDING XIV. AN INTERLUDE XV. DUK-DUK XVI. FLIGHT XVII. THE ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE XVIII. THE AVALANCHE XIX. AT ARM'S LENGTH XX. THE LAST RAID XXI. JUSTICE

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  _Frontispiece in Colour_

  'With their arms still bound firmly to their sides, the prisonersstumbled through the forest.' (See page 97.)

  'Come up and have a look at this, Meek'

  'Now 's the time!'

  Up and up, foot by foot, arrows whizzing and clicking

  'Feel better?'

  'The Raider!'

  A score of dusky natives burst into the ring

  Grinson marched in at the head of a procession

  'Who says I ain't tattooed?'

  With every step the descent became steeper

  Kafulu sprang upon Meek from behind

  The German flung a pail of water over the unconscious Meek

  Noiselessly on his stocking soles tip-toed after the German

  One of the Germans raised his revolver, but before he could fire, Hoolelaunched the spear at him

  The leader of the dancers was just approaching when there was a roar,and the whirring propeller set up a hurricane which caught at his dress

  Grinson let out a bellow like the blast of a fog-horn, and sprang fromthe trees, followed by a horde of natives

  Grinson gave the boulder a shove in the desired direction

  With a thunderous crash it struck the side of the vessel a few feetbelow the rail

  Quickly they set their ladders against the barricade, and began to swarmup