The pearl divers
by Gordon Stables
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
- Title
- The pearl divers and Crusoes of the Sargasso Sea
- Original Publication
- Birmingham: ELD & BLACKHAM, 1896.
- Credits
- Al Haines, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Oceania -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72051
- Release Date
- November 6, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PEARL DIVERS — A WORD TO MY BOY READERS — CONTENTS
- 2.BOOK I THE HERMIT OF THE OLD WINDMILL (A SUMMER IDYLL) — THE PEARL DIVERS — CHAPTER I “ WAS IT AN APPARITION? ” — CHAPTER II AT THE OLD WINDMILL — CHAPTER III CAPTAIN ANTONIO’S GLASS EYE — CHAPTER IV THE TRANSFORMATION SCENE — CHAPTER V A WONDERFUL EVENING — CHAPTER VI “ THE TWILIGHT IS SAD AND CLOUDY, AND THE WIND BLOWS WILD AND FREE ” — CHAPTER VII “ YES, YES,” SHE WEPT, “ON A FEARFUL NIGHT LIKE THIS THEY WERE ALL DROWNED ” — CHAPTER VIII AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES — CHAPTER IX “ THE MORN WAS FAIR, THE SKY WAS CLEAR, NO BREATH CAME O’ER THE SEA ”
- 3.BOOK II PEARL FISHING IN CANNIBAL ISLES — CHAPTER I THE STOWAWAY — CHAPTER II AT SEA — CHAPTER III WILD LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE — CHAPTER IV STRANGE STORY OF A STOLEN DIAMOND — CHAPTER V ASHORE ON A CANNIBAL ISLAND — CHAPTER VI THE KOH-I-NOOR PEARL — CHAPTER VII LEONA AND THE ISLANDERS — CHAPTER VIII INVASION BY SAVAGES—FEARFUL FIGHTING — CHAPTER IX A FLEET OF THE DEAD — CHAPTER X AFLOAT ON SUMMER SEAS
- 4.BOOK III ADRIFT ON AN ECHOLESS OCEAN — CHAPTER I MUTINY AND DEATH — CHAPTER II THE DOOM OF THE MUTINEERS — CHAPTER III THE DREAD STILLNESS BROKEN BY A WAILING SHRIEK — CHAPTER IV WHAT A WORLD OF LIFE WAS EVERYWHERE AROUND THEM — CHAPTER V A LONG LOST DERELICT — CHAPTER VI THE CRUNCHING NOISE ADDED TO THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION — CHAPTER VII THE BALLOON HAD BURST IN MID AIR — CHAPTER VIII STRANGE ADVENTURES—SECRETS OF THE SEA — CHAPTER IX AT THE DERELICT AGAIN — CHAPTER X “ SAYS GRANNIE, ‘JOHNNIE,’ SHE SAYS, ‘YOU’RE GOIN’ HOME’ ” — CHAPTER XI “ WHERE CAN MEN DIE BETTER THAN IN FACING FEARFUL ODDS? ” — CHAPTER XII “ NO HELP! NO HOPE! AND DAY AFTER DAY FLEW BY ” — CHAPTER XIII SO PASSED THE LONG, BRIGHT HOURS AWAY — CHAPTER XIV BROTHER JOSÉ’S STORY, AND DAVIE DRAKE’S LITTLE JOKE
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