Blue Lights

About this eBook

Author

Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

Title

Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Sudan -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21719

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21719

Release Date

June 7, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."Blue Lights" — Chapter One. — Hot Work in the Soudan. — The False Step. — Chapter Two. — Shows some of the Consequences of the False Step, and introduces the Reader to Peculiar Company. — Chapter Three. — The “Sailors’ Welcome”—Miles has a Night of it and Enlists—His Friend Armstrong has an Agreeable Surprise at the Soldiers’ Institute. — Chapter Four. — The Embarkation Jetty—And Nipped in the Bud. — Chapter Five. — Difficulties met and overcome. — Chapter Six. — The Unfinished Letter—Too Late! — Chapter Seven. — Miles begins to discover himself—Has a few Rough Experiences—And falls into Pea-Soup, Salt-Water, and Love. — Chapter Eight. — Has Reference to many Things connected with Mind, Matter, and Affections. — Chapter Nine. — Our Hero meets a Friend unexpectedly in Peculiar Circumstances, and has a very Strange Encounter. — Chapter Ten. — Off to the Wars. — Chapter Eleven. — New and Sad mingled with Curious Experiences. — Chapter Twelve. — In Action at last. — Chapter Thirteen. — Tells of some of the Trials, Uncertainties, Dangers, and Disasters of War. — Chapter Fourteen. — Describes some of Osman Digna’s Eccentricities and Other Matters. — Chapter Fifteen. — Athletics—A New Acquaintance turns up—An Expedition undertaken, followed by a Race for Life. — Chapter Sixteen. — Letters from Home—Flynn is Exalted and brought Low—Rumours of War in the Air. — Chapter Seventeen. — The Expedition—Enemy reported—Miles in a Dilemma. — Chapter Eighteen. — Wherein are described an Assault, a Furious Fight, and some Strange Personal Encounters. — Chapter Nineteen. — Refers to Sergeant Hardy, Amytoor-Lawyer Sutherland, and other Matters. — Chapter Twenty. — Old Friends in New Aspects. — Chapter Twenty One. — Shows how the Lady of the Institute discourses to the Sergeant, how Jack-Tars go out on the Spree, and how Music Conquers Warriors. — Chapter Twenty Two. — Led into Captivity. — Chapter Twenty Three. — Shows that Suffering tends to draw out Sympathy. — Chapter Twenty Four. — Adventures among the Soudanese, and Strange Meeting with the Mahdi. — Chapter Twenty Five. — Miles is promoted—Molloy overthrows the Mahdi, and is elevated for so doing. — Chapter Twenty Six. — Cruel Treatment—Despair Followed by Hope and a Joyful Discovery. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — In which Hopes and Fears rise and fall. — Chapter Twenty Eight. — Chapter Twenty Nine. — Describes a few Meetings and several Surprises. — Chapter Thirty. — Conclusion. — The End.

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