AMID THE CHEERS OF THE BAND OF BRITISHERS
THE ENSIGN WAS BROKEN AT THE MASTHEAD. [See page 68]

THE NAMELESS ISLAND

A Story of some Modern
Robinson Crusoes

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "The Young Cavalier," etc.

London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1920

Second Impression


STORIES OF ADVENTURE.

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

Each Volume contains Eight Full-Page Illustrations by a well-known Artist

The Boys of the Otter Patrol.

A Tale of the Boy Scouts. By E. Le Breton-Martin.

Kiddie of the Camp.

A Scouting Story of the Western Prairies. By Robert Leighton.

Otters to the Rescue.

A Sequel to "The Boys of the Otter Patrol." By E. Le Breton-Martin.

The Clue of the Ivory Claw.

By F. Haydn Dimmock.

'Midst Arctic Perils.

By P. F. Westerman.

The Phantom Battleship.

By Rupert Chesterton.

Kiddie the Scout.

A Sequel to "Kiddie of the Camp." By Robert Leighton.

The Lost Trooper.

A Tale of the Great North-West. By F. Haydn Dimmock.

The Brigand of the Air.

By Christopher Beck.


CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [THE HURRICANE]
II. [AGROUND]
III. [ABANDONED]
IV. [THE LANDING]
V. [THE CAMP]
VI. [THE ANIMAL THAT WOULDN'T BE RESCUED]
VII. [THE EMBLEM OF EMPIRE]
VIII. ["A SAIL!"]
IX. [UNWELCOME VISITORS]
X. [STRANGE ALLIES]
XI. [THE FRUSTRATED SACRIFICE]
XII. [AT BAY]
XIII. [ELLERTON TO THE RESCUE]
XIV. [ROUTING THE SAVAGES]
XV. [A KNIFE-THRUST IN THE DARK]
XVI. [THE GALE]
XVII. [BACK TO THE ISLAND]
XVIII. [A SURPRISE FOR THE INVADERS]
XIX. [THE PRISONER'S ESCAPE]
XX. [THE ENEMY IS CORNERED]
XXI. [THE BUCCANEERS' CAVE]
XXII. [THE TREASURE CHAMBER]
XXIII. ["A SAIL! A SAIL!"]
XXIV. [A FALSE AND A REAL ALARM]
XXV. [THE GREAT INVASION]
XXVI. [A GREAT DISASTER]
XXVII. [THE LAST STAND]
XXVIII. [THE RESCUE]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[ Amid the cheers of the band of Britishers the ensign was broken at the masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ Ellerton was only just in time. Another dazzling flash enabled him to see the helpless form of the crippled seaman ]

[ Andy, finding the bull close to his heels, gripped a rope and swung himself into a position of comparative safety ]

[ The chief's canoe was paddled slowly towards the shore ]

[ Crash! fair in the centre of the lightly built fifty-feet hull struck the sharp stem ]

[ "A sail! a sail!" he exclaimed breathlessly ]

[ A huge turtle had crawled across the beach and ... had set the alarm bell ringing ]

[ With fierce shouts the savages tore down the path straight for the barricade ]