The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
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Henty George Alfred. The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
CHAPTER I. HOW IT CAME ABOUT
CHAPTER II. THE START
CHAPTER III. AT LIMA
CHAPTER IV. A STREET FRAY
CHAPTER V. AMONG THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER VI. A TROPICAL FOREST
CHAPTER VII. AN INDIAN ATTACK
CHAPTER VIII. DEFEAT OF THE NATIVES
CHAPTER IX. THE SIGNAL STAR
CHAPTER X. A FRESH START
CHAPTER XI. BRIGANDS
CHAPTER XII. PRISONERS
CHAPTER XIII. LETTERS FROM HOME
CHAPTER XIV. THE CASTLE OF THE DEMONS
CHAPTER XV. INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH BEGINS
CHAPTER XVII. AT WORK
CHAPTER XVIII. DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XIX. THE TREASURE
CHAPTER XX. HOME
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Harry Prendergast went down to Leadenhall Street and saw the managing owner of the Para. As Bertie had anticipated, Mr. Prosser, after hearing Harry's statement that he wished to take a passage to Callao in the vessel advertised to start in a week's time, and that he was much obliged to them for giving Bertie a berth as supernumerary midshipman, said:
"We shall certainly have pleasure in putting your brother's name on the ship's books. He has already explained to me his desire to go out with you; we have had every reason to be satisfied with him since he entered our service, and he had better draw pay as usual, as his service during the voyage will then count towards his time. As for yourself, we do not book passengers, it is more bother than it is worth; but we have no objection to our masters taking one or two. The addition of a mouth or so practically makes very little difference in the amount of ships' stores consumed. The masters pay us a small sum a head and make their own terms with the passengers they take. In that way we are saved all complaints as to food and other matters. Of course a passenger would put on board for himself a stock of such wines, spirits, and little luxuries as he may choose.
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"Your brother is a smart young chap, Mr. Prendergast. I was watching him yesterday, and he is working away now as if he liked work. He has the makings of a first-rate sailor. I hold that a man will never become a first-class seaman unless he likes work for its own sake. There are three sorts of hands. There is the fellow who shirks his work whenever he has a chance; there is the man who does his work, but who does it because he has to do it, and always looks glad when a job is over; and there is the lad who jumps to his work, chucks himself right into it, and puts his last ounce of strength on a rope. That is the fellow who will make a good officer, and who, if needs be, can set an example to the men when they have to go aloft to reef a sail in a stiff gale. So, as I understand, Mr. Prendergast, he is going to leave the sea for a bit. It seems a pity too."
"He will be none the worse for it, Captain. A year or so knocking about among the mountains of Peru will do more good to him than an equal time on board ship. It will sharpen him up, and give him habits of reliance and confidence. He will be all the better for it afterwards, even putting aside the advantage it will be to him to pick up Spanish."
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