The Voyage of the Aurora

Those who have ever had occasion to reside for any length of time in Gosport are sure to be more or less acquainted with the little village of Alverstoke; because it lies near a...

In the meantime, the _Industry_ having come to an anchor in Portsmouth Harbour, Captain Leicester, waiting only to see the sails properly furled, jumped into the boat and hurrie...

A fortnight from the day on which Captain Leicester signed the charter-party saw the last package passed into the _Aurora's_ hold, and on the following day she sailed for Plymou...

About daybreak the wind veered round and blew a fine, fresh, steady breeze from the northward, enabling the barque to lay her course with flowing sheets; and sunset found her sa...

By the time that the _Aurora's_ crew were on deck, crouching behind the bulwarks aft on the port side, armed, and instructed by George as to what he required of them, the strang...

At the moment of our making the acquaintance of this vessel a very unsatisfactory state of affairs happened to prevail on board her. She was, as we have already seen, a large sh...

On the morning following the seizure of the _Princess Royal_ by her misguided crew, the day broke tardily, revealing to the mutineers a wild, threatening sky, a high and increas...

A moment or two in the open air sufficed to settle in some measure Walford's disordered faculties and to restore to him his reason, of which he had been pretty nearly bereft by...

As the key turned in the lock, Walford sank down in a state of semi-stupefaction upon one of the saloon sofas, listening like one in a dream to the distant sound of the men's vo...

We left the _Aurora_, as the reader will remember, at the moment when, by the merest hair's breadth, she was enabled to avoid what must have been a terribly disastrous collision...

The man hurried away joyously to do George's bidding, hailing his comrades aloft to "knock off work and come shark-fishing, all you sea-dogs aloft there," as soon as he had plac...

The two occupants of the main-top maintained their position therein, keeping a watchful eye upon the movements of the schooner, until that craft had approached to within about t...

"A Terrible ending to a sin-stained career," murmured the skipper of the _Aurora_ with white set lips, when the first shock of surprise and consternation had passed away suffici...

When George Leicester retired to his cabin that night, it was with the full intention to at once retire to his cot. Instead, however, of doing this, he flung himself down on the...

To find one's self sold into slavery must be a thoroughly unpleasant experience; yet when George Leicester that night found himself actually a slave, the tenant of a slave-cabin...

When George Leicester at last awoke from his stupor, and had sufficiently recovered his scattered senses to remember where he was, the strength and fury of the storm had passed,...

The cane-knives were speedily at work; the grass was long and abundant, and as the two men were working for liberty--nay, probably for life itself--they were not long in cutting...

Having partaken of as much of the fruit as he deemed prudent, George at once betook himself to the task of climbing the precipice, and was agreeably surprised at the rapidity an...

The breeze continued fresh until about midnight, after which it lessened a trifle, and came off from the larboard quarter. Daybreak found the boat off the north-eastern extremit...

About an hour afterwards a fine breeze sprang up from the north-east, and, putting the boat before it, George seated himself in the stern, tiller in hand, and steered as near a...

That same day George waited upon the admiral and formally laid claim to the _Jeune Virginie_. He was very well received, his statement patiently listened to, and--to make a long...

The anchors were no sooner on the bottom than George found himself a busy man. There were certain authorities to be communicated with as to the disposal of the French prisoners,...