Chapter 1

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ILLUSTRATIONS

"NOT THAT WAY--TWO MORE STEPS, BOY, AND YOU _Frontispiece_ ARE DEAD" PAGE FOR A HUNDRED FEET THEY FELL AND STUART 72 CLOSED HIS EYES IN SICKENING DIZZINESS

HIS VISION DISTORTED BY THE VENOM-VAPOR OF THE 144 POISON TREES, THE LAND-CRABS SEEMED OF ENORMOUS SIZE AND THE NEGRO WHO CAME TO RESCUE HIM APPEARED AS AN OGRE

ABOVE THE HOARSE SHOUTS OF RUFFIANS AND JACK-TARS, 224 ROSE TEACH'S MURDEROUS WAR CRY

PLOTTING IN PIRATE SEAS