Category: Adventure
There is no doubt at all that when young Frank Willoughby brought out his book with him, and seated himself on the trunk of the old fallen tree, he meant to read it; but this intention had soon been abandoned, and, at the moment our tale commences, the book lay on the grass at...
"I feel," said the captain one day, at breakfast, "that I am making a dangerous experiment. I am keeping far in to the west land; I am all but hugging the shore; and if it were...
13. PART V--THE INDIAN JUNGLE.In a large and beautiful room in one of the upper storeys of a Club, on the outskirts of Bombay, four gentlemen are seated at dinner one evening, not long after the events relat...
4. PART II--THE POLAR ICE-FIELDS.The good ship _Grampus_ slipped away from her moorings on the 13th of February, 18--, and steamed slowly seaward from the port of Peterhead, North Britain, hound for the wild an...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.Some degrees south of the Equator, and nearly four hundred miles from the eastern shores of Africa, a tributary of the river up which the saucy little _Bluebell_ was so quietly...
2. CHAPTER TWO.There was something about Fred Freeman which is difficult to describe, but which caused everybody to like him. He had the manners of a high-bred English gentleman, but that did...
1. PART I--THE MOORS AND FENS OF ENGLAND.There is no doubt at all that when young Frank Willoughby brought out his book with him, and seated himself on the trunk of the old fallen tree, he meant to read it; but this in...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN."I haven't a doubt of it," replied Lyell. "At the same time I cannot quite swallow all the tracker says about the enormity of the serpent he saw when following up your trail in...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Was it always so silent and still in that lonely ice-pack as I have tried to describe it? Not always: there were times when the floes around the ship began to move slowly up and...
10. PART IV--THE WILDS OF AFRICA."Isn't it a glorious morning," said Chisholm, coming on deck and joining his friends Frank and Fred, who were reclining in their lounge chairs, books in hand, under the awning r...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.On board the _Dodo_ once more, steaming steadily northwards; some times far out at sea, with nothing but the blue all round them: sometimes hugging the green-wooded shore: somet...
7. PART III--THE RUSSIAN STEPPES.The captain of the Danish barque, who had brought our three heroes safely into Russian waters, was one of those individuals who are never so happy as when ministering to the com...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."Kind and all as our host Jerikoff was," continued the captain, "none of us were sorry when the floods began to abate and finally disappeared. But hardly had they gone when yet...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE."But it wasn't always plain sailing with us either on these expeditions," said Dugald, continuing the narrative of his adventures; "sometimes storms would arise, ay, and such st...
20. PART VIII--THE BACKWOODS.Two months after the adventures related in last chapter, our wandering trio of friends found themselves bivouacked in one of the forests of the far West, just as the shades of e...
3. CHAPTER THREE."How does he harden, Fred?" cried Chisholm, bursting all unannounced one morning into the dining-room of a North Wales hotel, where Freeman and young Willoughby were just puttin...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.Those of my readers who have followed me so far in my history of the wanderings and adventures of our heroes cannot but have observed that in the character of Frank Willoughby t...
18. PART VII--THE PAMPAS.There is no word in the world your true British sailor better knows the meaning of than that little noun _duty_. Lyell's time was up; he must hurry back to Sydney, and thence to...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.A corobory is a war dance by native savages. Our heroes had the pleasure of gazing at more than one, before they finally left Australia in search of new adventures. But very ter...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN.Knowing, as we do, how good a horseman Frank was, it is almost needless to say that before he was one month in this country he was as handy with bolas or lassoo as one of the na...
16. PART VI--AUSTRALIA.Poor Frank Willoughby--for two long weeks his spirit hovered 'twixt life and death. It was a happy hour for his friends when he was pronounced out of danger; and for Frank himse...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Still pleasantly passed the time of our heroes away at Captain Varde's delightful residence. He did all in his power to render them happy and comfortable; he even invited friend...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.It was a lovely evening towards the close of an autumn day, many months after the events related in the last chapter, that you might have seen a carriage and pair, drawn up at t...