The Archive · 1939

Return to Civilization

I think I have said enough to make any readers of this review realize that "The Death Treasure of the Khmers" is an adventure story well worth reading, and it would be unfair to continue more in detail and say how the adventure turns out, how the treasure is lost or won, guarded as it;|was by two huge pythons who are turned loose on the searchers, describe the rescue of Palee, and the return to civilization. All these must be got from the book itself.

The author says he at once realized he had arrived back at civilization when he and his American co-adventurer entered the hotel at Angkor and found a group of American tourists having a discussion with the manager and overheard the following, "But.|why is there no ice water? I think it is disgraceful."

Then Mr. Colam knew—RF.cM.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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