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PREFACE. The extremely violent nature of the volcanic eruption in Krakatoa in 1883, the peculiar beauty of those parts of the eastern seas where the event occurred, the wide-spread influences of the accompanying phenomena, and the tremendous devastation which resulted, have all inspired me with a desire to bring the matter, in the garb of a tale, before that portion of the juvenile world which accords me a hearing. For most of the facts connected with the eruption which have been imported into my story, I have to acknowledge myself indebted to the recently published important and exhaustive "Report" of the Krakatoa Committee, appointed by the Royal Society to make a thorough investigation of the whole matter in all its phases. I have also to acknowledge having obtained much interesting and useful information from the following among other works:--_The Malay Archipelago_, by A.R.
Wallace; _A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago_, by H.O.
Forbes; and Darwin's _Journal of Researches_ round the world in H.M.S.
"Beagle." R.M.
BALLANTYNE. HARROW-ON-THE HILL, 1889. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP.
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