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The Rajah of Dah, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Rajah of Dah
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21364]
Language: English
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The Rajah of Dah, by George Manville Fenn.
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Here is another book by George Manville Fenn, full of mystery, suspense and terror--to coin a phrase. Ned, a boy of sixteen, who has just left school, and who has been brought up by an uncle who is a naturalist and who is often away, begs that he may be allowed to come on the uncle's next expedition. By the way, how could he have been brought up by an uncle who was often away? Simple, he was placed as a boarder in the house of a local clergyman, who educated a few boys in his house: this was often the case in the nineteenth century.
They get to somewhere in Burma, and travel up a river till they come to a settlement where there are some British. At that time Burma was a British Protectorate. The local Burmese ruler is an absurd and loathsome tyrant. Ned makes friends with a local English boy, Frank, and they have various adventures together, including the capture of an eighteen foot croco