The Hispaniola Plate
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John Bloundelle-Burton. The Hispaniola Plate
CHAPTER I. NICHOLAS CRAFER'S STRANGE WILL
CHAPTER II. AN OLD BIT OF HISTORY
CHAPTER III. THE VANISHED MR. WARGRAVE
CHAPTER IV. CAZALET'S BANK
CHAPTER V. CAPTAIN WILLIAM PHIPS
CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNING OF A MUTINY
CHAPTER VII. THE ENDING OF IT
CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND MUTINY
CHAPTER IX. AND THE PREPARATIONS AGAINST IT
CHAPTER X. AND HOW IT WAS ENDED
CHAPTER XI. THEY HAVE TO DESIST
CHAPTER XII. THE BARK "FURIE."
CHAPTER XIII. THE OLD MAN'S STORY
CHAPTER XIV. THE WRECK IS FOUND
CHAPTER XV. WHAT THE FIRST SEARCH REVEALED
CHAPTER XVI. AN HONEST MAN ARRIVES
CHAPTER XVII. AN ALARM FROM THE "FURIE."
CHAPTER XVIII. TREACHERY AND FLIGHT
CHAPTER XIX. THE "HONEST MAN" IN HIS TRUE COLOURS
CHAPTER XX. A FIGHT
CHAPTER XXI. THE VILLAIN'S DEN
CHAPTER XXII. MAD!
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TREASURE HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT WAS IN THE TREASURE HOUSE
CHAPTER XXV. THE MIDDLE KEY
CHAPTER XXVI. NICHOLAS LEAVES THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXVII. THE NARRATIVE ENDS
CHAPTER XXVIII. OFF TO THE VIRGIN ISLES
CHAPTER XXIX. DRAWING NEAR
CHAPTER XXX. OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF A FAR DISTANT PAST
CHAPTER XXXI. SOME LIGHT UPON THE PAST
CHAPTER XXXII. THE SOLITUDE IS INTERRUPTED
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ISLAND'S OWNER
CHAPTER XXXIV. JOSEPH ALDERLY
CHAPTER XXXV. DANGER IMPENDING
CHAPTER XXXVI. BEWARE!
CHAPTER XXXVII "AND DEATH THE END OF ALL."
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE OWNER OF THE TREASURE
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE APPROACHING SEARCH
CHAPTER XL. THE SEARCH
CHAPTER XLI. THE END
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Most of the maps of the West Indies published during the first half of the present century and anterior to that date mark distinctly the spot where the following story principally takes place. Thirty miles due north of Cape Français, on the north coast of San Domingo, is a reef entitled "Bajo de la Plata, or Phips's Plate," while more modern maps simply describe it as "Silver Bank."
This is, of course, the spot where Sir William Phips-a now forgotten figure in history-obtained the plate mentioned by Defoe; and, so far as I am aware, there is but one detailed account in existence of how he found and secured that plate. This account is contained in a duodecimo volume entitled "Pietas in Patriam: the Life of Sir William Phips," published in London in 1697 anonymously, but guaranteed as accurate by several people who knew him. A production entitled "The Library of American Biography," edited by one Jared Sparks, also professes to give an accurate biography of Phips, but it is simply a garbled and mangled copy of the London publication. I should also mention that the "Biographia Britannica" refers to the expedition in the article on "Christopher Monk, second Duke of Albemarle." So does a work of the last century entitled "The Lives of the Admirals," by Lawrence Echard, and so also do some encyclopædias; but all of them undoubtedly derive their information from "Pietas in Patriam."
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"Then it was Wargrave!" exclaimed Creech. "I've seen that name in some of our old books. At least, I think I have. Let me see-Wargrave. Where have I seen it? I know it somehow."
"It can't matter," said the younger Jones. "There has been no Wargrave on our books for a long while."
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