Three Sailor Boys or Adrift in the Pacific

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Verney Lovett Cameron. Three Sailor Boys or Adrift in the Pacific

Three Sailor Boys or Adrift in the Pacific

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE RUNAWAYS

CHAPTER II. IN HIDING

CHAPTER III. ADRIFT

CHAPTER IV. ON A CORAL ISLAND

CHAPTER V. FISH-CURING

CHAPTER VI. A VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION

CHAPTER VII. BILL MAKES A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER VIII. A NARROW ESCAPE

CHAPTER IX. PURSUED BY CANNIBALS

CHAPTER X. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE

CHAPTER XI. BRISTOL BOB

CHAPTER XII. A SAD EVENT

CHAPTER XIII. IN CAPTIVITY

CHAPTER XIV. A DIVE FOR LIBERTY

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Verney Lovett Cameron

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Our intention of going to sea, however, never left us, though our good conduct caused us to be treated more kindly than had hitherto been the case; but I must say that our instructors punished us for any mistakes or carelessness most severely, though of this we did not take much notice, for we saw equal measure served out to all our companions, and never for a moment doubted that it was part and parcel of the necessary teaching.

When we were about fourteen we were both called before the guardians, who spoke to us kindly, and said that it was their intention to apprentice us to our respective trades, for which we had shown great aptitude, and that in about a week or so we should be bound over to the masters who had been chosen for us.

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