The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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Reid Mayne. The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
Chapter One. The Albatross
Chapter Two. Ship on Fire
Chapter Three. The Lord’s Prayer
Chapter Four. Hunger. – Despair
Chapter Five. Faith. – Hope
Chapter Six. Flying-Fish
Chapter Seven. A Cheering Cloud
Chapter Eight. A Canvas Tank
Chapter Nine. A Pleasant Shower-Bath
Chapter Ten. The Pilot-Fish
Chapter Eleven. A Lenten Dinner
Chapter Twelve. Flensing a Shark
Chapter Thirteen. The Sucking-Fish
Chapter Fourteen. A Sail of Shark-Flesh
Chapter Fifteen. The Mysterious Voice
Chapter Sixteen. Other Waifs
Chapter Seventeen. How Snowball escaped from the Slaver
Chapter Eighteen. Snowball amid the Drift
Chapter Nineteen. Snowball at Sea on a Hencoop
Chapter Twenty. The Flash of Lightning
Chapter Twenty One. To the Oars
Chapter Twenty Two. Ship Ahoy!
Chapter Twenty Three. The Rafts en Rapport
Chapter Twenty Four. Reconstructing the Raft
Chapter Twenty Five. The Catamaran
Chapter Twenty Six. Little William and Lilly Lalee
Chapter Twenty Seven. Too Late!
Chapter Twenty Eight “Overboard!”
Chapter Twenty Nine. Saved!
Chapter Thirty. The Zygaena
Chapter Thirty One. Face to Face
Chapter Thirty Two. A Ring Performance
Chapter Thirty Three. The Chase of the Catamaran
Chapter Thirty Four. The Sail out of Sight
Chapter Thirty Five. Waiting for Death
Chapter Thirty Six. A Chest at Sea
Chapter Thirty Seven. An improvised Life-Preserver
Chapter Thirty Eight. Conjectures about the Catamaran
Chapter Thirty Nine. Down the Wind
Chapter Forty. Launching the Life-Preserver
Chapter Forty One. A Lookout from Aloft
Chapter Forty Two. Once more aboard
Chapter Forty Three. Refitting the Raft
Chapter Forty Four. The Albacores
Chapter Forty Five. The Sword-Fish
Chapter Forty Six. The Swordsman of the Sea
Chapter Forty Seven. Angling for Albacore
Chapter Forty Eight. The Frigate-Bird
Chapter Forty Nine. Between two Tyrants
Chapter Fifty. Snowball making a Somersault
Chapter Fifty One. A Thrust through and through
Chapter Fifty Two. An awkward Grip
Chapter Fifty Three. Gloomy Prospects
Chapter Fifty Four. Thanksgiving
Chapter Fifty Five. Snowball sees Land
Chapter Fifty Six. Is it Land?
Chapter Fifty Seven. The King of the Cannibal Islands
Chapter Fifty Eight. Very like a Whale
Chapter Fifty Nine. Aboard the Body of a Whale
Chapter Sixty. A curious Cuisine
Chapter Sixty One. An Assembly of Sharks
Chapter Sixty Two. A dangerous Equilibrium
Chapter Sixty Three. A Harpoon well handled
Chapter Sixty Four. The thick Waters
Chapter Sixty Five. A Whale on Fire!
Chapter Sixty Six. The big Raft
Chapter Sixty Seven. A Crew of Cannibals
Chapter Sixty Eight. The Lottery of Life and Death
Chapter Sixty Nine. A Challenge declined
Chapter Seventy. An unexpected Termination
Chapter Seventy One. Le Gros upon Trial
Chapter Seventy Two. A Duel to the Death
Chapter Seventy Three. Hate against Hate
Chapter Seventy Four. A Light!
Chapter Seventy Five. Towards the Beacon!
Chapter Seventy Six. A double Darkness
Chapter Seventy Seven. A whispered Conspiracy
Chapter Seventy Eight. A foul Deed done in a Fog
Chapter Seventy Nine. Dousing the Glim
Chapter Eighty. Suspicious Sounds
Chapter Eighty One. Unpleasant Conjectures
Chapter Eighty Two. An informal Inquest
Chapter Eighty Three. Slipping the Cable
Chapter Eighty Four. Chapter Lxxxiv
Chapter Eighty Five. Nearer and Nearer
Chapter Eighty Six. Cut in Twain
Chapter Eighty Seven. An unlooked-for Deliverance
Chapter Eighty Eight. A threatened Storm
Chapter Eighty Nine. A Startling Shriek
Chapter Ninety. A Madman in mid-Ocean
Chapter Ninety One. The insane Swimmer
Chapter Ninety Two. Boarding the Boat
Chapter Ninety Three. The Catamaran abandoned
Chapter Ninety Four. A “School” of Sperm-Whales
Chapter Ninety Five. Worse off than ever
Chapter Ninety Six. The darkest Hour
Chapter Ninety Seven. A cheering Cup
Chapter Ninety Eight. A phantom Ship or a Ship on Fire?
Chapter Ninety Nine. A Whaler “Trying-Out.”
Chapter One Hundred. The End of the “Yarn.”
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The story of the Pandora has been told in all its terrible details. A slave-ship, fitted out in England, and sailing from an English port, – alas! not the only one by scores, – manned by a crew of ruffians, scarce two of them owning to the same nationality. Such was the bark Pandora.
Her latest and last voyage was to the slave coast, in the Gulf of Guinea. There, having shipped five hundred wretched beings with black skins, – “bales” as they are facetiously termed by the trader in human flesh, – she had started to carry her cargo to that infamous market, – ever open in those days to such a commodity, – the barracoons of Brazil.
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All night long did they continue to row against the wind; and as morning broke upon them, they came to a rest upon the calm sea, unseen by their late comrades, and with ten miles separating the two rafts from each other.
It was the fatigue of that long spell of pulling – with many a watchful and weary hour preceding it – that had caused the boy to sink down upon the folded canvas, and almost on the instant fall asleep; and it was the apprehension of being followed that was causing Ben Brace to stand shading his eyes from the sun, and scan with uneasy glance the glittering surface of the sea.
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