Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata - R. M. Ballantyne

For most of the facts connected with the eruption which have been imported into my story, I have to acknowledge myself indebted to the recently published important and exhaustive "Report" of the Krakatoa Committee, appointed by the Royal Society to make a thorough investigation of the whole matter in all its phases.

I have also to acknowledge having obtained much interesting and useful information from the following among other works:—The Malay Archipelago, by A.R. Wallace; A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, by H.O. Forbes; and Darwin's Journal of Researches round the world in H.M.S. "Beagle."

R.M. BALLANTYNE.

HARROW-ON-THE HILL, 1889.

CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]—THE PLAY COMMENCES
[CHAPTER II.]—THE HAVEN IN THE CORAL RING
[CHAPTER III.]—INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF VARIOUS KINDS
[CHAPTER IV.]—NIGEL UNDERGOES SOME QUITE NEW AND INTERESTING EXPERIENCES
[CHAPTER V.]—CAPTAIN ROY SURPRISES AND GRATIFIES HIS SON, WHO SURPRISES A NEGRO, AND SUDDENLY FORMS AN ASTONISHING RESOLVE
[CHAPTER VI.]—THE HERMIT OF RAKATA INTRODUCED
[CHAPTER VII.]—WONDERS OF THE HERMIT'S CAVE AND ISLAND
[CHAPTER VIII.]—PERBOEWATAN BECOMES MODERATELY VIOLENT
[CHAPTER IX.]—DESCRIBES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A SINGULAR MEETING UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES
[CHAPTER X.]—A CURIOUS SEA-GOING CRAFT—THE UNKNOWN VOYAGE BEGUN
[CHAPTER XI.]—CANOEING ON THE SEA—A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT-SURPRISE AND SUDDEN FLIGHT
[CHAPTER XII.]—WEATHERING A STORM IN THE OPEN SEA
[CHAPTER XIII.]—FRIENDS ARE MET WITH, ALSO PIRATES, AND A LIFE-OR-DEATH PADDLE ENSUES
[CHAPTER XIV.]—A NEW FRIEND FOUND—NEW DANGERS ENCOUNTERED AND NEW HOPES DELAYED
[CHAPTER XV.]—HUNTING THE GREAT MAN-MONKEY
[CHAPTER XVI.]—BEGINS WITH A TERRIBLE FIGHT AND ENDS WITH A HASTY FLIGHT
[CHAPTER XVII.]—TELLS OF THE JOYS, ETC., OF THE PROFESSOR IN THE SUMATRAN FORESTS, ALSO OF A CATASTROPHE AVERTED
[CHAPTER XVIII.]—A TRYING ORDEAL—DANGER THREATENS AND FLIGHT AGAIN RESOLVED ON
[CHAPTER XIX.]—A TERRIBLE MURDER AND A STRANGE REVELATION
[CHAPTER XX.]—NIGEL MAKES A CONFIDANT OF MOSES—UNDERTAKES A LONELY WATCH AND SEES SOMETHING WONDERFUL
[CHAPTER XXI.]—IN WHICH THE PROFESSOR DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
[CHAPTER XXII.]—A PYTHON DISCOVERED AND A GEYSER INTERVIEWED
[CHAPTER XXIII.]—TELLS OF VOLCANIC FIRES AND A STRANGE RETURN "HOME,"
[CHAPTER XXIV.]—AN AWFUL NIGHT AND TERRIBLE MORNING
[CHAPTER XXV.]—ADVENTURES OF THE "SUNSHINE" AND AN UNEXPECTED REUNION
[CHAPTER XXVI.]—A CLIMAX
[CHAPTER XXVII.]—"BLOWN TO BITS,"
[CHAPTER XXVIII.]—THE FATE OF THE "SUNSHINE,"
[CHAPTER XXIX.]—TELLS CHIEFLY OF THE WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF THIS ERUPTION ON THE WORLD AT LARGE
[CHAPTER XXX.]—WONDERFUL CHANGES
[CHAPTER XXXI.]—ENDS WITH A STRUGGLE BETWEEN INCLINATION AND DUTY
[CHAPTER XXXII.]—THE LAST