Wild Adventures round the Pole

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Stables Gordon. Wild Adventures round the Pole

Chapter One. The Twin Rivers – A Busy Scene – Old Friends with New Faces – The Building of the Great Ship – People’s Opinions – Ralph’s Highland Home

Chapter Two. The Dinner by the Lake – Rory’s Run Round Africa – The Return of the Wanderers

Chapter Three. Retrospection – Ralph’s Home in England – A Hearty if not Poetic Welcome

Chapter Four. Life at Leigh Hall – The Launch of the “Arrandoon” – Trial Trips – A Row and a Fight – “Freezing Powders.”

Chapter Five. Danger on the Deep – A Forest of Waterspouts – The “Arrandoon” is Swamped – The Warning

Chapter Six. A Life on the Ocean Wave – On the Rocks – Mystery – A Home on the Rolling Deep

Chapter Seven. Sandie McFlail, M.D. – “Wha Wouldna’ be a Sea-Bird?” – The Girl Tells Her Strange Adventures – Nightfall on the Sea

Chapter Eight. A Gale from the Mountains – Daybreak in Iceland – The Great Balloon Ascent – Rory’s Yarn – The Snow-Cloud – The Pirate is Seen

Chapter Nine. Mount Hekla – The Great Geyser – A Narrow Escape – The Search for the Pirate – McBain’s Little “Ruse de Guerre” – The Battle Begun

Chapter Ten “Down with the Red Flag and up with the Black!” – Victory – An Old Acquaintance – Hie, for the North

Chapter Eleven. The Voyage Resumed – A Pleasant Evening – “Those Rushing Winds” – The “Arrandoon” Grows Saucy – The Doctor Spread-Eagled – A School of Whales

Chapter Twelve. The Isle of Jan Mayen – Retrospection – The Sea of Ice – The Deserted Village – Carried off by a Bear – Dancing for Dear Life

Chapter Thirteen. More about Freezing Powders – “Perseverando” – Dining in the Sky – The Descent of the Crater

Chapter Fourteen. Anxious Hours – Exploration of the Mountain Cavern – The Cave of the King of Ice, and Ghouls of a Thousand Winters – Transformation Scenes – Snowblind – Lost

Chapter Fifteen. The “Arrandoon” Anchors to the “Floe” – The Visit to the “Canny Scotia” – Silas Grig – A Sad Scene – Rory Relieves His Feelings – Strangers Coming from the Far West

Chapter Sixteen. Silas Grig’s Dinner-Party – A New Member of the Malacopterygii – The Storm on the Sea of Ice – Break-up of the Main Pack – Roughing it at Sea

Chapter Seventeen. The Storm – The “Canny Scotia” in Distress – Rum, Mutiny, Anarchy, and Death – Saved – Adventure with a She-Bear – Capture of the Young

Chapter Eighteen. A New Arrival – The Dogs – Trapper Seth Becomes Kennel-Man – Preparations for a Great Seal Hunt – The Greenland Bear

Chapter Nineteen “Silas Grig, His Yarn” – The White Whale – Afloat on an Iceberg – A Dreary Journey – Bear Adventures – “The Seals! The Seals!”

Chapter Twenty. Seal-Stalking – A Glorious Day’s Sport – Piper Peter and the Bear – A Strange Duet – The Seal-Stalkers’ Return

Chapter Twenty One. The Coming Frost – Silas Warns the “Arrandoon” of Danger – Forging Through the Ice – Beset – A Strange and Alarming Accident

Chapter Twenty Two. Captain Cobb Retires – More Torpedoing – The Great Ice-Hole – Strange Sport – The Terrible Zugaena – The Death Struggle

Chapter Twenty Three. Rory’s Reverie – Silas on the Scymnus Borealis – The Battle with the Sharks – Rory Gets in for it again – Thrown among the Sharks

Chapter Twenty Four. May-Day in the Arctic Regions

Chapter Twenty Five. Breaking Up of the Great Ice Pack – In the Nips – The “Canny Scotia” on her Beam-Ends – Staving of the “Arrandoon.”

Chapter Twenty Six. An Adventure on the Pack – Separated from the Ship – Despair – The Dream of Home – Under Way Once More

Chapter Twenty Seven. Working along the Pack Edge – Among the Seals again – A Bumper Ship – Adventures on the Ice – Ted Wilson’s Promotion

Chapter Twenty Eight. A Wonderful Yankee – “Making Off” Skins – Preparing to “Bear up” – The Summer Home of the Giant Walrus – The Ships Part

Chapter Twenty Nine. Northward Ho! – Hoisting Beacons – The White Fog – The Great Sea-Serpent

Chapter Thirty. Land Ho! The Isle of Desolation – The Last Blink of Sunshine – The Aurora Borealis – Strange Adventure with a Bear

Chapter Thirty One. A Council – Preparing for Winter Quarters – The Isle of Alba and its Mammoth Caves – Magnus’s Tale – At his Boy’s Grave

Chapter Thirty Two. The Terrible Snowstorm – Something Like an Aquarium – The Mammoth Caves and their Startling Treasures – The Journey Polewards – Collapse of the Balloon – “God Save The Queen.”

Chapter Thirty Three. Another Winter at the Pole – Christmas Day – The Curtain rises on the Last Act – Sickness – Death – Despair

Chapter Thirty Four. A Sailor’s Cottage – The Telegram – “Something’s in the Wind” – The Good Yacht “Polar Star” – Hope for the Wanderers

Chapter Thirty Five. The Rescue – Homeward Bound – All’s Well that Ends Well

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“When did you hear from Allan and Rory?” asked McBain that day, as they were seated at dinner in the little Highland cottage.

Mrs Morrison had done her best to put something nice before them, and not without success either – so thought Ralph, and so, too, thought his guest. At all events, both of them did ample justice to that noble lake trout. Five pounds did he weigh, if he weighed an ounce, and as red was he in flesh as if he had been fed upon beet. The juicy joint of mountain mutton that followed was fit to grace the table of a prince – it was as fragrant and sweet as the blooming heather tops that had brought it to perfection. Nor was the cranberry tart to be despised. The berries of which it was composed had not come over the Atlantic in a barrel of questionable flavour – no, they had been culled on the dewy braelands that very morning by the fair young fingers of wee Jeannie Morrison herself. The widow did not forget to tell them that, and it did not detract from their enjoyment of the tart. For drink they had fragrant heather ale – home-brewed.

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“I’ll see you a little way home, Jim,” continued McBain, when they were clear of the crowd. “Jim is what they call you, isn’t it?”

“Jim,” said the blackamoor, “is what dey are good enough to call me. But, sah, Jim has no home.”

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