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Chapter I: Prologue: In Tsen-Tac's Opium Den

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I. SAIGON

II. UP THE RIVER

III. A FELLOW TRAVELER

IV. POST 32

V. AT THE MISSION

VI. AN ENTHUSIAST DISCOURSES ON PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS

VII. THE SILENT VILLAGE

VIII. LOVE IN THE FOREST

IX. AN INTERVIEW WITH A SORCERESS

X. THE FUGITIVE

XI. A DESPERATE ADVENTURE

XII. THOSE LEFT BEHIND

XIII. THE FUGITIVE'S STORY

XIV. INTO THE UNKNOWN

XV. DEEPENING MYSTERY

XVI. NEAR THE END OF THE JOURNEY

XVII. A FREAK OF NATURE

XVIII. BACK IN THE STONE AGE

XIX. OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

XX. INSIDE THE TEMPLE

XXI. THE LAW OF GONDWANA

XXII. WANDA TELLS HER STORY

XXIII. A TERRIBLE BARGAIN

XXIV. THE RESCUE

XXV. ESCAPE

XXVI. A MESSAGE FROM JIENG

THE RED GODS

LIST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

_Europeans_

PIERRE DE LURSAC A young administrative official of French Indo-China.
FATHER RAVENNES Priest of the Apostolic Mission to the Banhars.
MICHAEL REDESKI Of the French army: Lieutenant in service in Indo-China.
WANDA His sister.
RABAUD Captain of an up-country river steamer.
JULES BRESSOND The narrator of the story: a boyhood friend of de Lursac's.

_Natives_

JIENG Chief sorceress and high priestess of the Moï tribes.
MAA-WANG "The-Man-who-goes-in-Front."
NGUR }
PÂA } Native guides.
HMON A woman of the Stieng tribe.

_Scene_: The city of Saigon (capital of French Indo-China) and
the unexplored, inaccessible forests surrounding the Pou-Kas, the
principal peak of the Annamite range.

THE RED GODS

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