***Transcriber's Notes: The partial phrase–"Child, it shall not bedone," consoled the–appears naturally in the original version on page 191(Chapter VII, section II), and in a printer's error, is inserted betweentwo halves of a hyphenated word on page 204; the latter was omitted. Theuse of hyphens in words was made consistent throughout. Variant spellingand dialect was faithfully preserved.***


Explorers of the Dawn



NEW BORZOI NOVELSSPRING, 1922

Wanderers
Knut Hamsun

Men of Affairs
Roland Pertwee

The Fair Rewards
Thomas Beer

I Walked in Arden
Jack Crawford

Guest the One-eyed
Gunnar Gunnarsson

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

The Longest Journey
E. M. Forster

The Soul of a Child
Edwin Björkman

Cytherea
Joseph Hergesheimer

Explorers of the Dawn
Mazo de la Roche

The White Kami
Edward Alden Jewell



Explorers of the Dawn

by Mazo de la Roche
With a Foreword by
Christopher Morley

New York
Alfred A Knopf
1922



Published February, 1922
Second Printing, March, 1922
Third Printing, May, 1922



Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper supplied by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




But a short while ago, A. de la R.laughed with me over the adventuresof these little fellows. To the memoryof that happy laughter I dedicate thebook.

M. de la R.

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