Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles

by Ernest R. Suffling

LONDON
JARROLD & SONS, 10 & 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C.
[All Rights Reserved]
1898

The Island of Jethou

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CONTENTS.

• [PREFACE.]
• [LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]
• [CHAPTER I.]
  • My birth and home—My pretty cousin—Accident to the "Kittywich"—Journey to Guernsey—Pleading to become a Crusoe—My wish granted—Outfit secured—Sail to Jethou
• [CHAPTER II.]
  • I take possession of the Island—Landing stores—A grand carousal—Farewell—Alone
• [CHAPTER III.]
  • First thoughts and impressions—A tour of the Island and description
• [CHAPTER IV.]
  • Farming operations—I make a plough and a cart—A donkey hunt—Dumb helpers—My live stock
• [CHAPTER V.]
  • Canoeing—Fish of the place—The ormer and limpet—A curious fishing adventure—Queer captures from the sea—Rock fish—Construct a fish pond and water-mill
• [CHAPTER VI.]
  • "Flapp," the gull—Surgical operation—The gull who refused to die—Taxidermy extraordinary—Feathered friends—Snakes
• [CHAPTER VII.]
  • I build a curious "box-boat"—An unpleasant night at sea—My Sunday service—The poem, "Alexander Selkirk"—Its applicability to my lot
• [CHAPTER VIII.]
  • A trip to St. Sampson's harbour—A horrid porcine murder—A voyage round Sark—Nearly capsized—Trip round Guernsey—The pepper-box—Curiosity of tourists
• [CHAPTER IX.]
  • Harvest operations—Explore La Creux Derrible, and nearly lose my life—Crusoe on crutches—An extraordinary discovery—Kill a grampus—Oil on troubled waters—Make an overflow pump
• [CHAPTER X.]
  • A storm and a wreck—The castaway—Dead—A night of horror—The boathouse destroyed—A burial at sea
• [CHAPTER XI.]
  • Climate in Winter—Vision of my father—A warning voice—Supernatural manifestations—The falling rock—My life saved by my dog
• [CHAPTER XII.]
  • A fairy pool—Wonders of the deep—Portrait of a poet—The cave of Fauconnaire—A letter from home and my answer to it
• [CHAPTER XIII.]
  • Another terrible storm—Loss of the "Yellow Boy"—A ketch wrecked—I rescue a man from the sea, badly injured—He recovers
• [CHAPTER XIV.]
  • Work and song—Sunday service—Build a larger boat, the "Anglo-Franc"—Collecting wreckage—Commence a jetty—Our cookery—Blasting operations—The opening banquet
• [CHAPTER XV.]
  • Trawling for fish and dredging for curios—Some remarkable finds—A ghastly resurrection—The mysterious paper—The hieroglyphic—A dangerous fall—Hors de combat—Attempts to unravel the paper
• [CHAPTER XVI.]
  • Yarns: The cabbages which hung their heads—The raft of spruce—Voyage of the "Dewdrop"—A lucky family—A deep, deep draught—The maire's cat
• [CHAPTER XVII.]
  • The Will again—Searching for a clue to the paper—Barbe Rouge's Will—A probable clue—Hopes and doubts—Perplexed—A memorable trawl by moonlight—A real clue at last—The place of the skull found
• [CHAPTER XVIII.]
  • Digging for the treasure—A noonday rest—The ghastly tenant of the treasure house—We find the treasure—An account of what we discovered
• [CHAPTER XIX.]
  • Preparing to leave—A letter home—We lengthen and enlarge the "Anglo-Franc"—Re-christen her "Happy Return"—Love at first sight—Victualling and stowing cargo—Pretty Jeannette—The long voyage—Incidents en route—Vegetarians, and their diet—Yarmouth reached—Fresh-water navigation—My native heath
• [CHAPTER XX.]
  • I surprise the old folks at home—All well—Is Priscilla false—We meet—The missing letters—A snake in the grass—Dreams of vengeance
• [CHAPTER XXI.]
  • The "Happy Return" inspected—More of my father's ghost—Unpacking the treasure—Seek an interview with Walter Johnson—Two letters
• [CHAPTER XXII.]
  • M. Oudin arrives—The Wedding Day—Division of the spoil—Alec returns to Jethou—Wedding gifts—The end
• [APPENDIX.]
  • A few words about the Channel Isles

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PREFACE.