Category: Adventure
I must either have been weaker, or the opiate stronger than the doctor expected, for it was near midnight before I awoke. Although still very low and faint, I felt much refreshed and invigorated. For some time I lay enjoying the coolness of the night air, and listening to the...
Here, late as it was, all was bustle and activity; the boiling-house was brilliantly lighted up, the clouds of white luminous vapour steaming through the apertures in the roof;...
4. CHAPTER IV.We arrived, at five in the afternoon, at Mr Hudson's property, having stopped, during the heat of the day, under a large deserted shed, situated in the middle of a most beautifu...
6. CHAPTER VI.The lieutenant commanding the Spider came on board, and finding we were bound for Kingston, strongly recommended our not attempting it alone, as he said privateers were swarming...
7. CHAPTER VII.I was certainly extremely puzzled myself to conjecture what could have become of the brig--that she had vanished was certain--and as for poor Captain Hause, he was in a truly pi...
9. CHAPTER IX.We did not get under weigh next morning until the sun was high--it was nearly ten in the forenoon, as we had only to go the length of Prickly Pear cottage that day, a property b...
11. CHAPTER XI.As the day lightened, the wind fell, and by sunrise, it was nearly calm in the small bay, although we could see the breeze roughening the blue waters out at sea.
1. CHAPTER I.I must either have been weaker, or the opiate stronger than the doctor expected, for it was near midnight before I awoke. Although still very low and faint, I felt much refreshe...
5. CHAPTER V.The short interval between the period when I resolved upon this step, and of putting it into execution, was passed in a state of mind little enviable--in a strange mixture of pl...
10. CHAPTER X.The morning after we arrived, we were sitting at breakfast, talking over our past expedition, and plans for the future, when two letters were laid on the table. The first was to...
2. CHAPTER II.And a devil of a noise did this said Mr Listado make. He rattled up the staircase, from side to side, like a grape-shot in a carronade; banging against the heavy balustrades, on...
12. CHAPTER XII."For now I stand as one upon a rock, Environed with a wilderness of sea; Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when some envious surge Will in his brinish...
3. CHAPTER III."Waken the whole house!--that's a mighty good one, friend Benjamin--why, the whole house _is_ awake--broad awake as a cat to steal cream, or the devil in a gale of wind--Awake!...