HI JOLLY!
By Jim Kjelgaard
Illustrated by Kendall Rossi
Dodd, Mead & Company New York 1960
© by Eddy Kjelgaard, 1959.
Second printing
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permissionin writing from the publisher
The general situation and many of the events described in this book arebased upon historical facts. However, the fictional characters arewholly imaginative: they do not portray and are not intended to portrayany actual persons.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-6197
Printed in the United States of America by Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.,Binghamton, N. Y.
Dedicated to
DOROTHY AND ED HANSEN
Contents
| 1. | ALI FINDS THE DALUL | 1 |
| 2. | FUGITIVE | 21 |
| 3. | AMBUSH | 38 |
| 4. | THE HADJ | 52 |
| 5. | THE UNPARDONABLE SIN | 64 |
| 6. | THE STRANGE SHIP | 78 |
| 7. | ANOTHER PILGRIMAGE | 94 |
| 8. | TROUBLE | 105 |
| 9. | LIEUTENANT BEALE | 120 |
| 10. | THE EXPEDITION | 133 |
| 11. | THE WILDERNESS | 145 |
| 12. | THE ROAD | 158 |
| 13. | REUNION | 174 |
1. Ali Finds the Dalul
The first gray light of very early morning was just starting to thinthe black night when Ali opened his eyes. He came fully awake, with nolingering period that was part sleep and part wakefulness, but he keptexactly the same position he had maintained while slumbering. Until heknew just what lay about him