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THE BOMBA BOOKS
BY ROY ROCKWOOD
_12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. With colored jacket_
_=Price per volume, 65 cents, postpaid=_
_Bomba lived far back in the jungles of the Amazon with a half-dementednaturalist who told the lad nothing of his past. The jungle boy was alover of birds, and hunted animals with a bow and arrow and his trustymachete. He had a primitive education in some things, and his daringadventures will be followed with breathless interest by thousands._
1. BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY _or The Old Naturalist's Secret_
In this volume the reader is taken into the depth of the jungle wherehe meets Bomba in a life replete with thrilling situations. Once thejungle boy saves the lives of two American rubber hunters who ask himwho he is. That sets Bomba to thinking. Who is he and how had he cometo the jungle? He knew that he was not of the natives, for he loved thebirds and the wild animals better. The old naturalist gives him a hintof his father and his mother, and Bomba sets off to solve the mysteryof his identity.
2. BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY AT THE MOVING MOUNTAIN _or The Mystery of the Caves of Fire_
Bomba travels many miles through the jungle, with many encounters withwild beasts and hostile natives. At last he reaches the Andes andpresently trails the old man of the burning mountain to his caves offire and learns more concerning himself. Weird adventures underground.
3. BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY AT THE GIANT CATARACT _or Chief Nascanora and His Captives_
From the Moving Mountain Bomba travels to the Giant Cataract, stillsearching out his parentage. Among the Pilati Indians he finds somewhite captives. He finds, too, an aged woman who had at one time been agreat operatic singer, and she is the first to give Bomba real news ofhis forebears.