The Adventures of Captain Horn
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Frank Richard Stockton. The Adventures of Captain Horn
CHAPTER I. AN INTRODUCTORY DISASTER
CHAPTER II. A NEW FACE IN CAMP
CHAPTER III. A CHANGE OF LODGINGS
CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER NEW FACE
CHAPTER V. THE RACKBIRDS
CHAPTER VI. THREE WILD BEASTS
CHAPTER VII. GONE!
CHAPTER VIII. THE ALARM
CHAPTER IX. AN AMAZING NARRATION
CHAPTER X. THE CAPTAIN EXPLORES
CHAPTER XI. A NEW HEMISPHERE
CHAPTER XII. A TRADITION AND A WAISTCOAT
CHAPTER XIII. “MINE!”
CHAPTER XIV. A PILE OF FUEL
CHAPTER XV. THE CLIFF-MAKA SCHEME
CHAPTER XVI. ON A BUSINESS BASIS
CHAPTER XVII. “A FINE THING, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS”
CHAPTER XVIII. MRS. CLIFF IS AMAZED
CHAPTER XIX. LEFT BEHIND
CHAPTER XX. AT THE RACKBIRDS’ COVE
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE GATES
CHAPTER XXII. A PACK-MULE
CHAPTER XXIII. HIS PRESENT SHARE
CHAPTER XXIV. HIS FORTUNE UNDER HIS FEET
CHAPTER XXV. AT THE PALMETTO HOTEL
CHAPTER XXVI. THE CAPTAIN’S LETTER
CHAPTER XXVII. EDNA MAKES HER PLANS
CHAPTER XXVIII. “HOME, SWEET HOME”
CHAPTER XXIX. A COMMITTEE OF LADIES
CHAPTER XXX. AT THE HÔTEL BOILEAU
CHAPTER XXXI. WAITING
CHAPTER XXXII. A MARINER’S WITS TAKE A LITTLE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE “MIRANDA” TAKES IN CARGO
CHAPTER XXXIV. BURKE AND HIS CHISEL
CHAPTER XXXV. THE CAPTAIN WRITES A LETTER
CHAPTER XXXVI. A HORSE-DEALER APPEARS ON THE SCENE
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE “ARATO”
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE COAST OF PATAGONIA
CHAPTER XXXIX. SHIRLEY SPIES A SAIL
CHAPTER XL. THE BATTLE OF THE GOLDEN WALL
CHAPTER XLI. THE “ARATO” ANCHORS NEARER SHORE
CHAPTER XLII. INKSPOT HAS A DREAM OF HEAVEN
CHAPTER XLIII. MOK AS A VOCALIST
CHAPTER XLIV. MR. BANKER’S SPECULATION
CHAPTER XLV. MENTAL TURMOILS
CHAPTER XLVI. A PROBLEM
CHAPTER XLVII. A MAN-CHIMPANZEE
CHAPTER XLVIII. ENTER CAPTAIN HORN
CHAPTER XLIX. A GOLDEN AFTERNOON
CHAPTER L. A CASE OF RECOGNITION
CHAPTER LI. BANKER DOES SOME IMPORTANT BUSINESS
CHAPTER LII. THE CAPTAIN TAKES HIS STAND
CHAPTER LIII. A LITTLE GLEAM AFAR
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The morning after the departure of the boat, Captain Horn, in company with the Englishman Davis, each armed with a gun, set out on a tour of investigation, hoping to be able to ascend the rocky hills at the back of the camp, and find some elevated point commanding a view over the ocean. After a good deal of hard climbing they reached such a point, but the captain found that the main object was really out of his reach. He could now plainly see that a high rocky point to the southward, which stretched some distance out to sea, would cut off all view of the approach of rescuers coming from that direction, until they were within a mile or two of his landing-place. Back from the sea the hills grew higher, until they blended into the lofty stretches of the Andes, this being one of the few points where the hilly country extends to the ocean.
The coast to the north curved a little oceanward, so that a much more extended view could be had in that direction, but as far as he could see by means of a little pocket-glass which the boy Ralph had lent him, the captain could discover no signs of habitation, and in this direction the land seemed to be a flat desert. When he returned to camp, about noon, he had made up his mind that the proper thing to do was to make himself and his companions as comfortable as possible and patiently await the return of his mate with succor.
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“What is most wonderful to me,” said the captain, “is that the vines ever grew there at all, or that these bushes should be here. Nothing can grow in this region, unless it is watered by a stream from the mountains, and there is no stream here.”
Miss Markham was about to offer a supposition to the effect that perhaps the precipitous wall of rock which surrounded the little plateau, and shielded it from the eastern sun, might have had a good effect upon the vegetation, when suddenly Ralph, who had a ship’s biscuit on the end of a sharp stick, and was toasting it in the embers of a portion of the burnt vines, sprang back with a shout.
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