Category: Adventure
=Motor Matt=, a lad who is at home with every variety of motor, and whose never-failing nerve serves to carry him through difficulties that would daunt any ordinary young fellow. Because of his daring as a racer with bicycle, motor-cycle and automobile he is known as "Mile-a-m...
=Motor Matt=, a lad who is at home with every variety of motor, and whose never-failing nerve serves to carry him through difficulties that would daunt any ordinary young fellow...
2. CHAPTER I."Right-o, matey! The Gulf of Paria is to the south, and right ahead of us is the Boca Drago, or Dragon's Mouth, the entrance to the Gulf. What's our first port-of-call?"
3. CHAPTER II.The anchor of the steamship _Borneo_ splashed into the yellow waters of the Gulf of Paria, the boat continuing onward until the anchor had taken a grip on the muddy bottom. The...
4. CHAPTER III.If the _Grampus_ had not had her fight with the cachalot she would not have put in at Port-of-Spain, and if Ensign Glennie had not lost his dispatches he would not have put in t...
5. CHAPTER IV.The Chinaman came scuffling down the ladder in his wooden sandals. He wore an old slouch hat pulled low over his ears, and when he stepped from the last rung to the floor of the...
6. CHAPTER V.Motor Matt considered himself personally responsible for the safety of the _Grampus_. The boat had been placed in his charge by Captain Nemo, Jr., her owner, and the captain's f...
7. CHAPTER VI.Gaines and Ah Sin were also sleeping in the torpedo room. As soon as Clackett had left, Matt bent down over the Chinaman and shook him roughly. The Celestial started up and star...
8. CHAPTER VII.Matt had neither the time nor the strength to manifest any surprise over the startling revelation made by Glennie. Not only that, but his brain was in such a condition it was we...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The _Grampus_ was yawing and tumbling about in the waves, completely at the mercy of wind and currents. Seizing the wheel, Matt brought the submarine to her course and lashed th...
10. CHAPTER IX."That," said Matt, "is a bomb. While I lay on the floor, all but helpless, the disguised Jap set fire to the fuse and planted the bomb in the corner."
11. CHAPTER X.Three days and nights of uneventful traveling brought the _Grampus_ to Santa Rosa Bay directly in the great mouth of the Amazon. Para River, to the south, is not generally consi...
12. CHAPTER XI.From what Matt could see of the island as the _Grampus_ drifted into the cove, and from the further observations which he made while standing on the rocks and helping Dick, he k...
13. CHAPTER XII.In order to reach the arm of the river that led to Para the _Grampus_ had to pass through a little strait known as South Channel, then on by Tucuria and around Cape Magoari. Dic...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Matt's shout acquainted the savages with the fact that there were two whites to be dealt with instead of one. The scoundrel in the canoe dropped his paddle and picked up a spear...
15. CHAPTER XIV."I'm a dunderhead, all right," Glennie cheerfully admitted when they were all in the periscope room with the prisoner, lashed hand and foot, lying before them. "I saw this rasca...
16. CHAPTER XV.Ensign Glennie was a happy man. In that blissful moment, when he was hugging his dispatches, he wanted to be friends with everybody, and would have shaken hands as rapturously w...
17. CHAPTER XVI."Did you know, Motor Matt," asked the consul, by way of preface, "that Captain Nemo, Jr., right there in Belize, had been approached by an agent of the Japanese Government and o...