The Hot Swamp
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Hot Swamp
Chapter One. A Romance of Old Albion. Opens with Leave-Taking
Chapter Two. Temporary Delay through Elements and Pirates
Chapter Three. On the Voyage
Chapter Four. The Storm and Wreck
Chapter Five. After the Wreck
Chapter Six. First Anxieties and Troubles
Chapter Seven. Converse and Adventures by the Way
Chapter Eight. Discovery and Flight
Chapter Nine. Homecoming
Chapter Ten. The Sports
Chapter Eleven. A Notable Duel Followed by Changes and Plots
Chapter Twelve. Plots and Plans
Chapter Thirteen. Mother and Son
Chapter Fourteen. A Terrible Calamity
Chapter Fifteen. An Eavesdropper in the Cave
Chapter Sixteen. Adventures in the Forests
Chapter Seventeen. Branwen in Imminent Danger
Chapter Eighteen. The Prince Undertakes Strange Work
Chapter Nineteen. Prince Bladud takes Possession of his Estate and Begins Business
Chapter Twenty. A Strange Abode and a Wild Visitor
Chapter Twenty One. A Strange Encounter and a Friend in Need
Chapter Twenty Two. The Pigs’ Cure
Chapter Twenty Three. In which very Perplexing Events Occur
Chapter Twenty Four. Describes an Ardent Search
Chapter Twenty Five. More Secrets and Surprises
Chapter Twenty Six. Further Searchings and Perplexities
Chapter Twenty Seven. Cross Purposes and Complications
Chapter Twenty Eight. Enemies, Friends, Scouts, Skirmishes, and Councils of War
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Battle of the Springs
Chapter Thirty. Small Beginnings of Future Great Things
Chapter Thirty One. More Plots and Plans
Chapter Thirty Two. Branwen Visits Gunrig
Chapter Thirty Three. The Hebrew’s Mission
Chapter Thirty Four. Bladud’s Return and Trials
Chapter Thirty Five. The Plot Thickens
Chapter Thirty Six. The Dénouement
Chapter Thirty Seven. The Last
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But it is not our purpose to inflict the entire log of that voyage on our reader, adventurous though the voyage was. Matter of much greater importance claims our regard. Still it would be unjust to our voyagers to pass it over in absolute silence.
At the very commencement of it, there occurred one of those incidents to which all voyagers are more or less subject. A gale arose the very evening of the day on which they left port, which all but swamped the little vessel, and the violence of the wind was so great that their huge sail was split from top to bottom. In spite of the darkness and the confusion that ensued, Captain Arkal, by his prompt action and skilful management, saved the vessel from immediate destruction. Fortunately the gale did not last long, and, during the calm that followed, the rent was repaired and the sail re-set.
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“No, not quite,” sighed Maikar, drawing a long breath, and raising himself on one elbow, with a slightly dazed look, “but I never was so nearly burst in all my life. If an ox had fallen on me he could not have squeezed me flatter. Do, two of you, squeeze me the other way, to open me out a little; there’s no room in me left to breathe—scarcely room to think.”
“Oh! your battles are not yet over, I see,” said the mate, going off to the stern of the vessel, where he found Bladud just recovering consciousness and smiling at the remarks of the captain, who busied himself in stanching the wound, just over his frontal bone, from which blood was flowing freely.
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