Excerpt from In Quest of Gold: Or, Under the Whanga Falls Alec, Alec, a strong, clear, boy's voice rang out from the gully, are you up there? Whatever are you doing at this time of night? And the next moment George Law, a tall, strongly made lad Of fifteen or so, left the sandy bed of the dried-up river, and sprang up the great rocks, as lightly and actively as a cat, to where his elder brother was Sitting alone. Hallo, Geordie, lad! Is that you I might have known it no one else can climb the rocks as you do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.