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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 320 320 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 206 206 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 68 68 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 46 46 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 34 34 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 32 32 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 22 22 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 21 21 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 20 20 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 18 18 Browse Search
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owned in attempting to cross the river Jong, in Africa. He was born of poor parents, at Pignan, Var, June 14, 1817, so that he was in his forty-eighth year. Gerarnd was fond of sport from his youth; at ten he chased cats and monkeys; at sixteen he carried a rifle and was a bit of a pugilist. He was a volunteer for the Algerian campaign in 1841, and commenced the life of adventures which has been terminated in so untimely a manner. He describes, in his well-known work "Le Tueur de Lions " (1857 and 1858), how it came to pass that a poor dwarf of a creature like him ventured to declare war against the giant of the woods--"one against one; chance for chance; God alone being a witness of the fight." Not long after his arrival at Bona he heard of the terrible lion of the Archiona, which had committed unheard-of devastations among villagers and troops alike. Said Gerard magnanimously, "If it pleases God, I who am not an Arab, will kill the lion, and he shall not devour you any more." Hi