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Ben-Hur|Lewis Wallace

Overview

It may interest readers of this story to know that its author believes it to have a certain foundation in fact. It was said about five-and-twenty or thirty years ago that an adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. According to this history the child who was used as a subject in the experiment, when in a state of trance, detailed the adventures and death of the unhappy Portuguese men and women, two of whom leapt from the point of a high rock into the Zambesi.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781544072142
  • ISBN-10: 1544072147
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: March 2017
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 1.13 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.62 pounds
  • Page Count: 558
  • Reading Level: Ages 9-12

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