F. T. Bullen.

New Bedford, Mass., September, 1901.


CONTENTS

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Through Fire and Water[1]
The Old House on the Hill[17]
You Sing[53]
The Debt of the Whale[93]
The Skipper’s Wife[117]
A Scientific Cruise[127]
A Genial Skipper[141]
Mac’s Experiment[157]
On the Vertex[169]
A Monarch’s Fall[179]
The Chums[189]
Alphonso M’Ginty[199]
The Last Stand of the Decapods[211]
The Siamese Lock[235]
The Cook of the Cornucopia[259]
A Lesson in Christmas-Keeping[269]
The Terror of Darkness[279]
The Watchmen of the World[289]
The Cook of the Wanderer[297]
The Great Christmas of Gozo[307]
Deep-Sea Fish[319]
A Mediterranean Morning[329]
Abner’s Tragedy[335]
Lost and Found[347]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING
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They met in full career, rolling each over each[Frontispiece]
The toiling men were breaking out the junk’s cargo[60]
Gently she covered their ruddy faces[121]
The skipper produced from his hip-pocket a revolver[163]
He gasped “In manus tuas, Domine,” and fell[208]
He clutched his insulter by the beard and belt[263]
She was to him brightest and best of all damsels[309]
A huge sailing-ship crushed her into matchwood[353]

DEEP-SEA PLUNDERINGS