[Illustration: Front Cover] [Illustration] THE BOOK OF ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE; BEING AN EXCITEMENT TO READING. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A NEW AND CONDENSED EDITION. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ABSALON. LONDON 1851. PREFACE. The object of this Volume is that of inducing young people to read, to cultivate in them a habit of reading and reflection, and to excite the imagination, the feelings, and the better emotions of their nature in a pleasurable and judicious manner. The pieces selected are such as will be likely to exert a beneficial influence upon the reader, to inspire him with heroic enthusiasm, and to lead him to despise danger. In our perpetually migrating population, no one can tell who will not be called upon to brave the vicissitudes of "flood and field;" and to show how perils may be surmounted, and privations endured with energy and patience, is to teach no unimportant lesson. Nothing whatever has been introduced into this Volume, but such subjects as will teach a dependence upon Divine Providence, in aid of self-reliance and self-sacrifice, while details of war and bloodshed have been studiously avoided. THE EDITOR. CONTENTS. ARABIAN HOSPITALITY, ETC. HOSPITALITY OF THE ARAB HORRORS OF AFRICAN WARFARE CROCODILE SHOOTING REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF COURAGE IN A LADY INDIAN FIELD SPORTS-- METHOD OF CATCHING BIRDS THE HYENA THE BEAR SAGACITY OF THE ELEPHANT ANECDOTES OF THE TIGER DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE PERSIAN TYRANNY SKETCHES IN VIRGINIA-- ROCK BRIDGE WIER'S CAVE THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE IN CALABRIA ESCAPE FROM A SHIP ON FIRE ANECDOTES, ETC.-- THE ALBATROSS VISIT TO A PENGUIN ROOKERY THE SEA ELEPHANT VISIT FROM THE NATIVES AT TERRA DEL FUEGO CHILIAN MODE OF CAPTURING WILD HORSES FIGHT BETWEEN A WHALE AND A KILLER WAR DANCES OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS HISTORY OF PADDY CONNEL EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM DROWNING ADVENTURE IN THE DESERT, AND MURDER OF A SHEIKH BOOK OF ENTERPRISE & ADVENTURE. ~Arabian Hospitality--African Warfare, &c.~ The following three extracts are from a work of considerable merit, intitled "The Crescent and the Cross." It contains, not only much valuable matter relative to Egypt and Abyssinia, but many interesting anecdotes, of which we give a specimen. HOSPITALITY OF THE ARAB.