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The Island of Gold

The Island of Gold

by Gordon Stables

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Author
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
Title
The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn
Credits
Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
Language
English
LoC Class
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37588
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37588
Release Date
October 1, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2."A Sailor's Yarn" — Book One—Chapter One. — Two Mitherless Bairns. — Book One—Chapter Two. — Life in the Woods. — Book One—Chapter Three. — “O Eedie, I’ve Found a Child.” — Book One—Chapter Four. — “Ransey, Fetch Jim; We’re Goin’ On.” — Book One—Chapter Five. — “Oh, No! I’ll Never Leave ’Ansey till we is Bof Deaded.” — Book One—Chapter Six. — Chee-Tow, the Red Chief of the Slit-Nosed Indians. — Book One—Chapter Seven. — On Silent Highways. — Book One—Chapter Eight. — “Poor Mary! She has Gone On.” — Book Two—Chapter One. — “Just Three Years Since Ransey Went to Sea.” — Book Two—Chapter Two. — “Ship-Shape and Seaman-Fashion.” — Book Two—Chapter Three. — A Quarterdeck Dream. — Book Two—Chapter Four. — “Dear, Unselfish, but Somewhat Silly Fellow.” — Book Two—Chapter Five. — “Till the Sea Gives up its Dead.” — Book Two—Chapter Six. — “O my Friend, my Brother,” I Cry. — Book Two—Chapter Seven. — “I Think You’re Going on a Wild-Goose Chase.” — Book Two—Chapter Eight. — At Sea—Mermaids and Mermen. — Book Two—Chapter Nine. — Wonderful Adventures of the Dancing Crane. — Book Two—Chapter Ten. — A Brush with the Somalis—the Derelict. — Book Two—Chapter Eleven. — Mutiny on Board—Far to the South’ard. — Book Three—Chapter One. — “A Sight I shall Remember till my Dying Day.” — Book Three—Chapter Two. — “I See a Beach of Coral Sand, Dark Figures Moving to and fro.” — Book Three—Chapter Three. — “We Shall Always be Brothers Now—Always, Always.” — Book Three—Chapter Four. — Prisoner among Savages—Shipwreck. — Book Three—Chapter Five. — Fortifying the Encampment. — Book Three—Chapter Six. — An Awful Secret of the Sea. — Book Three—Chapter Seven. — Strange Adventures in a Crystalline Cave. — Book Three—Chapter Eight. — Entombed Alive. — Book Three—Chapter Nine. — “On Swept the War-Canoes towards the Coral Beach.” — Book Three—Chapter Ten. — “An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth.” — Book Three—Chapter Eleven. — Death of James. — Book Three—Chapter Twelve. — Leaves from First Mate Tandy’s Log.

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