The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns

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Author

Finlay, Roger T. (Roger Thompson), 1860-

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E-text prepared by Joe Longo, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Castaways -- Juvenile fiction

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Text

eBook-No.

20614

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20614

Release Date

February 17, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Wonder Island Boys
2. 2.THE MYSTERIES OF THE CAVERNS — ROGER T. FINLAY — ILLUSTRATED — THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY New York Copyright, 1914 — "The professor was reading the scrap, and silently handed it to George"
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.List of Figures
6. 6.THE MYSTERIES OF THE CAVERNS
7. 7.CHAPTER I — MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF THE TEAM
8. 8.CHAPTER II — WORKING ON THE NEW BOAT — Fig. 1. The Broken Yoke — Fig 2-3. Working on the new boat — Fig. 4. Cross Section. — Fig. 5. — Fig. 6. Red Angel.
9. 9.CHAPTER III — THE HIDDEN MESSAGE — Fig. 7. The Color Spectrum — Fig. 8. Reflection Angle — Fig. 9. The Hidden Message
10. 10.CHAPTER IV — THE TERRIBLE MONSOONS — Fig. 10. The First Gun — Fig. 11. The Bullet — Fig. 12. The Sea-going Boat
11. 11.CHAPTER V — THE VOYAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANGEL, AND THE DISCOVERY
12. 12.CHAPTER VI — THE GRUESOME FINDS IN THE CAVE — Fig. 13 The Treasure Cave
13. 13.CHAPTER VII — THE TREASURES OF THE CAVE — "We have probably found a pirate's lair, and here is the booty"
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII — REMOVING THE VESSELS FROM THE CAVERNS — Fig. 14. The Slab Found in the Cave — Portugese Coin 1700, Spanish Pistole, Peruvian Dollar. — Fig. 15. Old Coins found in Cave.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX — MAKING ELECTRICITY — Fig. 16. Cane Crusher. — Fig. 17. A Magnet — Fig. 18. Magnetic Induction — Fig. 19. Fig. 19a. The Two Magnets — Fig. 20. Making a Permanent Magnet
16. 16.CHAPTER X — STARTING ON THE VOYAGE TO THE WEST — Fig. 21. Fig. 22. Illustrating Wind Pressure
17. 17.CHAPTER XI — A TERRIBLE VOYAGE AND THE SHIPWRECK — Fig. 23. Mariner's Compass — The Northern Shore OF WONDER ISLAND. Chart showing Voyage in "No. 3." Fig. 24. — Fig. 25. The Charting Board
18. 18.CHAPTER XII — THE RETURN TRIP. THE ORANG-OUTAN — Fig. 26. Guava. — Fig. 27. Coffee.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII — THE STRANGE VISITOR — "The professor walked toward him and held out his hand"
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV — AN EXCITING TRIP TO THE FALLS — Fig. 28. Cream Separator.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV — THE STORY OF THE CAVE
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI — MUSIC AND ANIMALS — Fig. 29. The Lion and Cubs
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII — THE TRIP THROUGH THE DENSE FOREST — Fig. 30 Puma
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII — SEEING THE FIRST SAVAGES — "With a single stroke the body of the snake was severed above the last coil" — Fig. 31. Acajou.
25. 25.GLOSSARY OF WORDS USED IN TEXT
26. 26.THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY 147 Fourth Avenue New York
27. 27.THE WONDER ISLAND BOYS — By ROGER T. FINLAY
28. 28.THE "HOW-TO-DO-IT" BOOKS — By J. S. ZERBE
29. 29.THE BOY GLOBE TROTTERS — By ELBERT FISHER
30. 30.The Ethel Morton Books — By MABELL S. C. SMITH
31. 31.The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts — A SERIES OF BOOKS FOR BOYS — By Capt. Alan Douglas, Scout-master
32. 32.Boy Scout Nature Lore to be Found in The Hickory Ridge Boy Scout Series, all illustrated:—

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