CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME

CHAPTERPAGE
XI. The Crew Leave[1]
XII. Mr. Selby takes up the Story[41]
XIII. The Hull[69]
XIV. Still Adrift[92]
XV. The Ice in the South[120]
XVI. The Aurora Australis[145]
XVII. The Thick of it[169]
XVIII. Imprisoned[192]
XIX. Mr. Moore continues the Story[221]

HEART OF OAK

CHAPTER XI THE CREW LEAVE

The sail shone like a peak of ice against a belly of soft snow-cloud right ahead—that is, ahead as the hull's bows lay. I should have supposed it ice, but for the captain, who stood close beside the companion holding the ship's glass: he said, 'There she is, miss.'

'Is she coming this way?' cried I, shivering with cold and passion.