The House Under the Sea (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
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The House Under the Sea is an adventure tale set in the Pacific ocean and told by Jasper Begg, veteran sailor who has spent some fifteen years on the ocean. Jasper tells the story of the infamous Ken's Island, the most fearsome place he came across during his marine life. Excerpt: "He indicated the distant reef, which seemed, as I bear witness, ablaze with lights. And not only the reef, mark you, but the sea about it, a cable's length, it may be, to the north and the south, shone like a pool of fire, yellow and golden, and sometimes with a rare and beautiful green light when the darkness deepened. Such a spectacle I shall never see again if I sail a thousand ships! That luscious green of the rolling seas, the spindrift tossed in crystals of light, foam running on the rocks, but foam like the water of jewels, a dazzling radiance—aye, a very carpet of quivering gold. Of this had they made the northern channel. How it was done, what cleverness worked it, it needed greater brains than mine to say. I was for all the world like a man struck dumb with the beauty of something which pleases and awes him in the same breath. We were just a little frightened group that stared open-mouthed upon a seeming miracle. If we regarded the things we saw with a seaman's reverence, let no one make complaint of that. The spectacle was one to awe any man; nor might we forget that those who appeared to live below the sea lived there, as Ruth Bellenden had told us, because the island was a death-trap. We were in the trap and none to show us the road out."
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Pemberton Max. The House Under the Sea (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
The House Under the Sea (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES KNOWN THE PURPOSE OF HIS VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT HE COMMISSIONED THE STEAM-SHIP SOUTHERN CROSS THROUGH PHILIPS, WESTBURY, AND CO
CHAPTER II. WE GO ASHORE AND LEARN STRANGE THINGS
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH JASPER BEGG MAKES UP HIS MIND WHAT TO DO
CHAPTER IV. WE GO ABOARD, BUT RETURN AGAIN
CHAPTER V. STRANGE SIGHTS ASHORE, AND WHAT WE SAW OF THEM
CHAPTER VI. JASPER BEGG MEETS HIS OLD MISTRESS, AND IS WATCHED
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH HELP COMES FROM THE LAST QUARTER WE HAD EXPECTED IT
CHAPTER VIII. THE BIRD'S NEST IN THE HILLS
CHAPTER IX. WE LOOK OUT FOR THE SOUTHERN CROSS
CHAPTER X. WE ARE SURELY CAGED ON KEN'S ISLAND
CHAPTER XI. LIGHTS UNDER THE SEA
CHAPTER XII. THE DANCING MADNESS
CHAPTER XIII. THE STORM
CHAPTER XIV. A WHITE POOL—AND AFTERWARDS
CHAPTER XV. AN INTERLUDE, DURING WHICH WE READ IN RUTH BELLENDEN'S DIARY AGAIN1
CHAPTER XVI. ROSAMUNDA AND THE IRON DOORS
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH JASPER BEGG ENTERS THE HOUSE UNDER THE SEA
CHAPTER XVIII. CHANCE OPENS A GATE FOR JASPER BEGG, AND HE PASSES THROUGH
CHAPTER XIX. WHICH SHOWS THAT A MAN WHO THINKS OF BIG THINGS SOMETIMES FORGETS THE LITTLE ONES
CHAPTER XX. THE FIRST ATTACK IS MADE BY CZERNY'S MEN
CHAPTER XXI. WHICH BRINGS IN THE DAY AND WHAT BEFELL THEREIN
CHAPTER XXII. THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTY HOURS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE END OF THE SIXTY HOURS
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SECOND ATTACK ON CZERNY'S HOUSE
CHAPTER XXV. IN WHICH THE SUN-TIME COMES AGAIN