Category: Historical Novels
On the morning of the 25th day of April, 18--, the whale-ship Montpelier, of New London, anchored in one of the many bays that open along the coast of Kamschatka, where it is washed by the waters of the Sea of Ochotsk.
Staring at the deserted boat, with open mouth and distended eyes, the shipkeeper remained for a few moments as motionless as though he had been frozen to the ice beneath his fee...
9. CHAPTER IX.“I am more to blame, Alice, than you are,” interrupted Marline, drawing his sheath-knife, and proceeding to cut the cords from the wrists and ankles of the prostrate seaman. “Ay...
8. CHAPTER VIII.As the Montpelier bowled upon her way, after Lark had so unceremoniously left his prisoners upon the ice, the giant rubbed his hands with delight, and glancing up at the squared...
1. CHAPTER I.On the morning of the 25th day of April, 18--, the whale-ship Montpelier, of New London, anchored in one of the many bays that open along the coast of Kamschatka, where it is wa...
3. CHAPTER III.The Montpelier’s boats, at the moment when Stump succeeded in hoisting the recall signal, were lying motionless in an open space of water, situated near the center of the floe t...
7. CHAPTER VII.As soon as the steward had fastened the hatch of the run, he made his way to the deck. Tom Lark was standing near the mizzen-mast watching the operations of three of the men, wh...
5. CHAPTER V.The shipkeeper had hardly concluded, when he heard footsteps descending the companion-way, and peering through the hatch, he saw the steward just as that worthy--still pale and...
4. CHAPTER IV.“He! he! he!” laughed the Portuguese, “Captain Lark more better as Captain Howard. He take de ship to some port and sell him--cargo and all. Den me get big share of de profit.”
6. CHAPTER VI.As he emerged from the entrance, however, he was seized and thrown down before he could use his rifle, by three of the New Zealanders, who had evidently been lying in wait for h...
2. CHAPTER II.As Stump rolled on, he turned his glances seaward, and perceived that a light breeze from the north-west was beginning to wrinkle the surface of the water. He could feel it fann...