# The Rover Boys on Land and Sea

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Seventh volume in the Rover Boys series
THE ROVER BOYS
ON LAND AND SEA
OR
THE CRUSOES OF SEVEN ISLANDS
BY
ARTHUR M. WINFIELD
(Edward Stratemeyer)
AUTHOR OF THE ROVER BOYS AT SCHOOL, THE ROVER BOYS ON THE OCEAN, THE PUTNAM HALL SERIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Made in the United Stales of America
BRINGING THE SHIP'S STORES ASHORE.—P. 223.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | The Rover Boys in San Francisco | 1 |
| II. | The Turning Up of Dan Baxter | 10 |
| III. | A Discovery and What Followed | 19 |
| IV. | Good Times at Santa Barbara | 27 |
| V. | On Board the Yacht | 36 |
| VI. | Adrift on the Pacific Ocean | 45 |
| VII. | Dismaying News | 55 |
| VIII. | From One Ship to Another | 64 |
| IX. | In Which the Enemy Is Cornered | 73 |
| X. | A Blow in the Darkness | 82 |
| XI. | A Call from the Stern | 90 |
| XII. | Another Accident at Sea | 99 |
| XIII. | The Crusoes of Seven Islands | 108 |
| XIV. | Settling Down on the Island | 117 |
| XV. | Another Castaway Brought to Light | 126 |
| XVI. | Sam and the Shark | 135 |
| XVII. | Exploring the Seven Islands | 143 |
| XVIII. | Unexpected Visitors | 151 |
| XIX. | Hot Words and Blows | 159 |
| XX. | The Mate Tries to Take Command | 168 |
| XXI. | The Attack on the Wreck | 176 |
| XXII. | A Heavy Tropical Storm | 184 |
| XXIII. | What Happened on the Bay | 192 ​ |
| XXIV. | In Close Quarters | 200 |
| XXV. | Trying to Come to Terms | 208 |
| XXVI. | The Cave on the Island | 217 |
| XXVII. | A Fight with a Wild Beast | 225 |
| XXVIII. | The Mate Shows His Hand | 234 |
| XXIX. | The Burning of the Wreck | 244 |
| XXX. | The Defense of the Cave—saved! | 255 |
INTRODUCTION.
My Dear Boys: "The Rover Boys on Land and Sea," is a complete story in itself, but forms the seventh volume of the "Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."
As I mentioned in a previous volume of this series, when I began this set of books I had in mind to write no more than three volumes, re lating the adventures of Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover, at home, at school, and elsewhere. But the publication of "The Rover Boys at School," "The Rover Boys on the Ocean," and "The Rover Boys in the Jungle," immediately called for more stories of the same sort, so year after year I have followed with "The Rover Boys out West," "The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes," "The Rover Boys in the Mountains," and now the volume before you, which relates the adventures of the three brothers, and some of their friends and enemies, on the sea and on a number of far away islands, where, for a time, all lead a sort of Robinson Crusoe life.
In writing this tale I had in mind not alone to ​please my young readers, but also to give them a fair picture of life on the ocean as it is to-day, in distinction to what it was years ago, and also to acquaint the boys and girls with some of the beauties of those mid-ocean lands which are generally so strange to all of us. The boys see much that is new, novel, and pleasing—new fruits, new flowers, new animals—and have often to use their wits to the utmost, to get themselves, out of serious difficulty and also to make themselves, and those under their protection, comfortable.
Once again I thank my young friends for the interest they have shown in my previous stories. I trust that all who peruse this volume will find it equally to their liking.
Affectionately and sincerely yours,
Edward Stratemeyer.
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