Most of the adventures are from experiences of my own.
Scenery all painted from Nature, seascapes, cloudscapes and landscapes, with the glamour of old ocean over all.
W. GORDON-STABLES
THE JUNGLE, TWYFORD, BERKS.
TO
LADY ANNE
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I [The Glamour of the Ocean]
II [Kep was Gone]
III ["Any Spot on Earth is a Home for the Brave"]
IV [In Search of a Ship]
V [The Ship "Macbeth"--Horrible Mutiny]
VI [The Hurricane--Crusoes in Great Snake Island]
VII [Sunken Gold--Jack's Career in Sidney]
VIII [A Breezy Ship, a Breezy Captain, and a Breezy Crew]
IX [Through the Hawse Hole]
X [The Broadsword-Men of the Breezy--Kep Cuts off a Leg]
XI [On the "Scout"]
XII [A Startling Adventure in the Woods--The Chief's Plot]
XIII [Preparing for the Fight]
XIV [Within a Yard of them lay poor Fisher's Head]
XV [The Attack upon the Barracoon]
XVI [Poor Bungle! Just let him Sleep]
XVII [The Midget Fleet--Bombardment--Fearful Scenes]
XVIII [Furious Fighting on Sea and Land]
XIX [Kep Commands a Dhow--A Deposed Sultan]
XX ["That Bar of Gold was Stolen from Me," Said Kep]
XXI [Tragedy on an Island--A Cannibal Witch]
XXII [In Slumbering Woods--Kep Captured by Savages]
XXIII [Fierce Fighting with the Cannibals]
XXIV ["Good Heavens, this is my Sister Madge!"]
XXV [A Great Ocean Race--"Goddard began to Shoot"]
XXVI [Something Extraordinary Happened]
XXVII [The Home-Coming of the Sauciest Boy]
XXVIII [Not another "But" about It]
CHAPTER I
THE GLAMOUR OF THE OCEAN