Category: Short Stories
Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the white mountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes of the island, Denison, the supercargo of the trading schooner _Palestine_, put off from her side and was pulled ashore to the house of the one...
Early one morning, just as the trade wind began to lift the white mountain mist which enveloped the dark valleys and mountain slopes of the island, Denison, the supercargo of th...
2. Chapter 2“In the morning Mrs. Rossiter was buried; the French captains allowing some of the surviving members of the crew of the _Britannia_ to carry her body to her grave. There was a y...
3. Chapter 3“He sprang to the third gun, the white seaman to the fourth, and waited for the other three boats, which, undaunted by the dreadful slaughter, were dashing on bravely. Again the...