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