| [CHAPTER I.] | PAGE |
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| Boyhood and youth of the author. Sailor's life. The "Good Luck."South Pacific Island scheme. Loss of crew off Cape Horn. | 3 |
| [CHAPTER II.] |
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| Push forward for the Society Islands. Driven into Magellan Straitsby stress of weather. Anchor in a land-locked bay. Search for freshwater. Attacked by savages. Serious injuries to Capt. Davis andone of the crew. Return to the schooner and make sail for the openocean. Resolve to return to England. Finally lay our course forEaster Island. | 9 |
| [CHAPTER III.] |
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| Captain Davis's condition. Only five men fit for duty. Terrificstorm. The schooner thrown on her beam ends and dismasted. Loss ofthree more of the crew. Taking to the whale-boat. Foundering ofthe schooner "Good Luck." Death of Captain Davis. Storm again,running to the southward before the tempest. Strike upon a reef.The author cast on shore. | 19 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] |
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| Return to consciousness. Seek for my comrades. Commence acalendar, and take inventory of my effects. | 38 |
| [CHAPTER V.] |
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| Attempt to make a fire. Distil salt water. First meal. Reflections.Hat-making. Repose. | 45 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] |
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| Build fireplace. Make knife and spear from anchor. Build tower ofstones for perpetual lamps. Resolve to explore the island. | 56 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] |
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| Improve my lamp-tower. Make a bow and arrow, and fish-hooks andlines. Capture a large turtle. Improve my steel and flint, andbuild a hut. Procure some salt, and make arrangements to explorethe island on the morrow. | 65 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] |
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| Rainy day. Reflections concerning climate, season of the year,tides, etc. Plant several varieties of my seeds. Make a pocketcompass, and prepare for my exploration of the island. | 73 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] |
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| Exploration of the island: First day. Fresh water at Rapid River.Wild goats, quail, tortoise, tobacco, wild ducks, trout, sweetpotatoes, mussels. Name the island and principal points, etc. | 85 |
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| Exploration of the island: Second day. Find coal and sulphur,seals, more turtles, gulls, etc. | 96 |
| [CHAPTER XI.] |
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| Exploration of the island: Third day. Stalking goats. Mirror lakeand river and bay. Sad moonlight thoughts. | 105 |
| [CHAPTER XII.] |
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| Exploration of the island: Fourth day. Finish the exploration ofthe island, and build stone house at Rapid River. | 113 |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] |
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| Make a hatchet of my iron hammer. Make matches and utensils forhouse. Team of goats, chair, table, etc. Birch-bark canoe.Arrangementsfor winter. | 124 |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] |
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| Make chairs, and arrange my house, seal-skins, and goat-skins.Provide provisions for winter. Discover wild grapes, and make wineand vinegar. Find potassium, or saltpetre. Make gunpowder, and bymeans of my compass discover iron. Thoughts of the future. | 136 |
| [CHAPTER XV.] |
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| Make a mould for bricks. Build a brick-kiln and make bricks. Build asmelting-house, blast-furnace, kiln for cleansing ore. Meditations.Build water-wheel and fan-wheel, and set my machinery for anair-blast to reduce the ore. | 151 |
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| Smelt my iron and make Bessemer steel and all kinds of tools. Erectan anvil and forge. Build a saw-mill, and plant a farm andkitchen-garden. | 166 |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] |
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| Make an astrolabe, and obtain the latitude of the island, and, byan eclipse of the moon, the longitude also. By means of the Epitomemake a chart on Mercator's projection, find out the distancefrom any known land. | 176 |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] |
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| A resumé of three years on the island. Daily routine of life.Inventions, discoveries, etc. Fortification of the Hermitage.Manufacture of cannon and guns. Perfection and improvement of themachine shop. Implicit faith of ultimately overcoming all obstaclesand escaping from the island. Desire to accumulate some kind ofportable wealth to carry with me, and desire to explore the islandfor its hidden wealth and the surrounding ocean for pearl oysters. | 189 |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] |
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| Construct a submarine boat, to be propelled by goat power and tomake its own air, to examine the bottom of the ocean near theisland for pearl oysters. | 206 |
| [CHAPTER XX.] |
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| Launch the submarine boat. Experiment with it in Stillwater Cove. | 223 |
| [CHAPTER XXI.] |
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| Explore the bottom of the ocean in the vicinity of the island withmy submarine boat. Discover pearl oysters and invent a greatimprovement to my boat. | 237 |
| [CHAPTER XXII.] |
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| Manufacture glass. Build a steam yacht, and circumnavigate theisland. Lay up large stores of valuable pearls obtained from thepearl oysters. | 252 |
| [CHAPTER XXIII.] |
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| Discovery of a human habitation. The skeleton and manuscript. | 265 |
| [CHAPTER XXIV.] |
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| The Pirate's manuscript. | 277 |
| [CHAPTER XXV.] |
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| Finding of the sunken wreck. The submarine explosion of the hull.Recovery of over ten millions in bars of gold and silver. | 295 |
| [CHAPTER XXVI.] |
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| Chess and backgammon playing. Fortification of the island. Team ofwhite swans. Goats as servants, and opponents in backgammonplaying. | 310 |
| [CHAPTER XXVII.] |
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| Discovery of gold. Turn the stream out of the lake, and buildportable engine to separate the gold. | 321 |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII.] |
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| The sea serpent. Attack and capture one of the species, thusputting the question of its existence forever at rest. | 339 |
| [CHAPTER XXIX.] |
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| Make a balloon and flying machine, in which I make a successfulascension. | 349 |
| [CHAPTER XXX.] |
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| The manuscript sent forth. | 362 |