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| Title | The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature |
| Author | Thomas Wallace Knox |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 6, 2005 |
| Length | 463 pages |
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