Category: Adventure
On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga--of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty group--when suddenly our dusky Polynesian boy, Nassaline, who was at the masthead on the lookout, gave...
Jack led us from the beach over the white coral sand straight up to the wood, and after looking about for a while to make sure of his bearings among the huge fallen logs, hit at...
2. CHAPTER I.On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga--of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty gro...
5. CHAPTER IV.For the next two days we went steaming ahead as hard as we could go in a bee-line to the northeastward, in the direction of the Duke of Cumberland's Islands; and it was two days...
6. CHAPTER V.Time went on, and the boys began to grow visibly fatter. It was Tuesday evening, and we hoped, putting on all steam as we were doing, to reach Tanaki by the small hours of Wedne...
4. CHAPTER III.Well, we did overhaul them for an hour at a stretch, and searched them thoroughly, inch by inch, Jim taking one sheet of the Admiralty chart for the South Pacific, and I the oth...
7. CHAPTER VI.At Tanaki meanwhile, as we afterwards learned by inquiry among the islanders, things had been going on with the unhappy missionary very much as our worst fears had led us to exp...
3. CHAPTER II.Presently, as we headed towards the black object on the horizon, Nassaline stretched out that skinny finger of his once more (no amount of feeding ever seemed to make Nassaline...
8. CHAPTER VII.It was Thursday the eleventh, in the small hours of the morning. The _Albatross_ was lumbering along as best she might with her broken engine, and we were nearing the line of 18...
1. CHAPTER VIII.