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Harry Collingwood. For Treasure Bound
For Treasure Bound
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
The Secret
Chapter Three
Bob’s Proposition
Chapter Four
Our Trial Trip
Chapter Five
A Gale in the Bay of Biscay
Chapter Six
The Fate of the “Amazon.”
Chapter Seven
The Sea-Serpent
Chapter Eight
Bob’s Dream
Chapter Nine
A Cape Horn Gale
Chapter Ten
Chased by Pirates
Chapter Eleven
The Chase Diverted
Chapter Twelve
The Wreck of the “Copernicus.”
Chapter Thirteen
A Mirage
Chapter Fourteen
At Close Quarters with a Shark
Chapter Fifteen
The “Lily” among Breakers
Chapter Sixteen
Attacked by Savages
Chapter Seventeen
Important News
Chapter Eighteen
Destruction of the “Albatross.”
Chapter Nineteen
My Father
Chapter Twenty
The Treasure
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Harry Collingwood
Published by Good Press, 2019
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He looked rather surprised at the last stipulation; but after carefully examining the drawing, and asking us our reasons for certain little peculiarities of shape, he confessed that, as far as his experience went, he could frankly say he had never seen a model better adapted for the purpose.
“And yet, gentlemen,” said he, “she will be wonderfully fast, for, in the first place, her hull is of such a shape that it will offer but a trifling resistance to forward motion; and, in the next place, these overhanging top-sides will, give her such extraordinary stability, as soon as she begins to heel over, that you will be able to carry enormous sails.”
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