At the Back of the World

“He had my billy of water to his mouth and was pouring it down his throat.” Page [195]

AT THE BACK OF
THE WORLD

Wanderings over many Lands and Seas

BY
GEORGE and JENNIE PUGH

LONDON
LYNWOOD & CO., LTD.
12 PATERNOSTER ROW
1913

CHAP.	PAGE
I	I go to Sea	[7]
II	The Making of a Sailor	[21]
III	A Burning Ship	[35]
IV	New Friends	[44]
V	Stormy Weather	[50]
VI	The Southern Cross	[69]
VII	The Stone Begins to Roll	[66]
VIII	Various Kinds of Storms	[75]
IX	Christmas at Sea and George the Greek’s Story	[82]
X	Rounding Cape Horn	[98]
XI	Callao and San Lorenzo	[108]
XII	The Capital of Peru	[121]
XIII	On the Oroya Railway	[129]
XIV	Life on the Andes	[139]
XV	The Cost of Liquor and my Return to Lima	[151]
XVI	I go Back to the Sea Again	[163]
XVII	“Eastward Ho!”	[170]
XVIII	Lost in the Bush	[186]
XIX	Life at Belmont—Sharks and Flying Foxes	[203]
XX	Snake Stories—Two Brave Girls	[214]
XXI	Widow Smith’s Pig, or “Barkis is Willin’”	[222]
XXII	A Dangerous Enterprise	[229]
XXIII	A Leaky Old Tub and Retribution or Villainy Rewarded	[241]
XXIV	Off to the Palmer Goldfields	[265]
XXV	We Return to Cooktown	[284]
XXVI	A Trip to the Cannibal Islands and Captain Brown’s Story	[294]
XXVII	Homeward Bound	[310]

CONTENTS