The Castaways
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Reid Mayne. The Castaways
Chapter One. A Castaway Crew
Chapter Two. The Hammer-Head
Chapter Three. The Albatross
Chapter Four. The Cry of the Dugong
Chapter Five. Running the Breakers
Chapter Six. A Gigantic Oyster
Chapter Seven. A Dangerous Locality
Chapter Eight. Shooting at Fruit
Chapter Nine. Gagging a Gavial
Chapter Ten. Burrowing Birds
Chapter Eleven. The Lanoons
Chapter Twelve. Krissing a Constrictor
Chapter Thirteen. Chicks quick to take Wing
Chapter Fourteen. A Grand Tree-climber
Chapter Fifteen. Something Sharp
Chapter Sixteen. An Enemy in the Air
Chapter Seventeen. Sitting by the Spit
Chapter Eighteen. Sick after Supper
Chapter Nineteen. An uneasy Night
Chapter Twenty. The Deadly Upas
Chapter Twenty One. Starting for the Interior
Chapter Twenty Two. Across Country
Chapter Twenty Three. Tough Travelling
Chapter Twenty Four. A Red Satyr
Chapter Twenty Five. Silence Restored
Chapter Twenty Six. In Fear and Trembling
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Spectacle rarely seen
Chapter Twenty Eight. Still Trusting in God
Chapter Twenty Nine. A Captive carried aloft
Chapter Thirty. What will become of her?
Chapter Thirty One. The Pursuit Arrested
Chapter Thirty Two. Listening In Despair
Chapter Thirty Three. Striking Out
Chapter Thirty Four. Swimming in Shadow
Chapter Thirty Five. The Family at Home
Chapter Thirty Six. An Improvised Palanquin
Chapter Thirty Seven. The Journey Continued
Chapter Thirty Eight. The Friendly Flag
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For some time the castaways had been seated in moody silence, now and then glancing at the corpse in the bottom of the boat, some of them no doubt thinking how long it might be before they themselves would occupy the same situation.
But now and then, also, their looks were turned upon one another, not hopefully, but with a mechanical effort of despair.
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The sight underneath should have awed him. The dead body was slowly, gradually sinking, its garb of dark blue Guernsey shirt becoming lighter blue as it went deeper down in the cerulean water; while fast advancing to meet it, as if coming up from the darkest depths of the ocean, was a creature of monstrous shape, the very type of a monster. It was the hideous hammer-headed shark, the dreaded zygaena of the Celebes Sea.
With a pair of enormous eyes glaring sullenly out from two immense cheek-like protuberances, giving to its head that singular sledge-hammer appearance whence it has its name, it advanced directly toward the slow-descending corpse, itself, however, moving so rapidly that the spectators above had scarce taken in the outlines of its horrid form, when this was no longer visible. It was hidden in what appeared a shower of bluish pearls suddenly projected underneath the water, and enveloping both the dead body of the sailor and the living form of the shark. Through the dimness could be distinguished gleams of a pale phosphoric sheen like lightning flashes through a sky cloud; and soon after froth and bubbles rose effervescing upon the surface of the sea.
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