CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | At the Golden Gate | [5] |
| II. | An Important Duty | [22] |
| III. | In Chinatown | [31] |
| IV. | Ned “Delivers the Goods” | [39] |
| V. | “The Fair Wind” | [50] |
| VI. | A Tight Place | [59] |
| VII. | An Ill Wind for Schmidt | [67] |
| VIII. | “My Address is the ‘Manhattan’” | [78] |
| IX. | Anchors A’Trip | [87] |
| X. | Across the Pacific | [95] |
| XI. | In the Grip of the Storm | [107] |
| XII. | Ned’s Terrible Plight | [115] |
| XIII. | “Fire!” | [128] |
| XIV. | Fighting the Flames at Sea | [136] |
| XV. | A Miraculous Escape | [149] |
| XVI. | A Strange Craft, Indeed | [157] |
| XVII. | Solitary Confinement | [167] |
| XVIII. | In Golden Seas | [175] |
| XIX. | Blue Lightning Ashore | [186] |
| XX. | Bound for the Volcano | [195] |
| XXI. | The Mouth of Fire | [203] |
| XXII. | Under Arrest | [216] |
| XXIII. | Herc Lunches with an Idol | [232] |
| XXIV. | The Cruise Resumed | [240] |
| XXV. | Jack Ashore | [250] |
| XXVI. | Off for the Pyramids | [258] |
| XXVII. | Lost in the Kings’ Tombs | [267] |
| XXVIII. | Homeward Bound | [279] |
THE DREADNOUGHT
BOYS’ WORLD CRUISE
CHAPTER I.
AT THE GOLDEN GATE.
“This is Golden Gate Park, Herc.”
“Huh,” responded the red-headed lad, whom we know as Herc Taylor, gazing about him, “where are the Golden Gates?”
“Don’t be any thicker than you have to,” laughed Ned Strong. “The Golden Gate is the poetical Western name for the narrow entrance to San Francisco harbor, through which we passed on the Manhattan two days ago. It was so called on account of the Argonauts of Forty-nine who came sailing into it in the old days expecting to find fortunes in the diggings. This park is ’Frisco’s show place, and it is a beautiful spot.”
“Well, so far they’ve done nothing but dig fortunes out of us,” complained Herc; “four dollars and ten cents for that breakfast at the St. Francis Hotel was as steep as the hill it stands on.”