title: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Jack London
description: <br>"Very good edition with good added material--just what I have been looking for."--J.J. Benson, <em>San Diego State University</em>
zlib_text: ADVENTURE
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  ADVENTURE
  by Jack London
  
  ADVENTURE
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  CHAPTER I--SOMETHING TO
  BE DONE
  He was a very sick white man.  He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-
  headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced
  and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular
  block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been
  pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated
  no more than a short clay pipe.  The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and
  naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white
  man clung to him closely and desperately.  At times, from weakness, his
  head drooped and rested on the woolly pate.  At other times he lifted his
  head and stared with swimming eyes at the cocoanut palms that reeled and
  swung in the shimmering heat.  He was clad in a thin undershirt and a
  strip of cotton cloth, that wrapped about his waist and descended to his
  knees.  On his head was a battered Stetson, known to the t