In this series of remarkable stories by Wilmer M. Ely are described the adventures of two boy chums—Charley West and Walter Hazard—in the great swamps of interior Florida and among the cays off the Florida Coast, and through the Bahama Islands. These are real, live boys, and their experiences are well worth following. If you read one book you will surely be anxious for those that are to follow.
THE BOY CHUMS ON INDIAN RIVER, or The Boy Partners of the Schooner “Orphan.”
In this story Charley West and Walter Hazard meet deadly rattlesnakes; have a battle with a wild panther; are attacked by outlaws; their boat is towed by a swordfish; they are shipwrecked by a monster manatee fish, and pass safely through many exciting scenes of danger.
THE BOY CHUMS ON HAUNTED ISLAND, or Hunting for Pearls in the Bahama Islands.
This book tells the story of the boy chums, Charley West and Walter Hazard, whose adventures on the schooner “Eager Quest,” hunting for pearls among the Bahama Islands, are fully recorded. Their hairbreadth escapes from the treacherous quicksands and dangerous water spouts; how they lost their vessel and were cast away on a lonely island, and their escape therefrom are fully told.
THE BOY CHUMS IN THE FOREST, or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades.
The story of the boy chums hunting the blue herons and the pink and white egrets for their plumes in the forests of Florida is full of danger and excitement. How the chums encountered the Indians; their battles with the escaped convicts; their fight with the wild boars and alligators are fully told.
THE BOY CHUMS’ PERILOUS CRUISE, or Searching for Wreckage on the Florida Coast.
This story of the boy chums’ adventures on and off the Florida Coast describes many scenes of daring and adventure, in hunting for ships stranded and cargoes washed ashore. The boy chums passed through many exciting scenes, on shore and island; and the loss of their vessel, the “Eager Quest,” they will long remember.