Wrecked On The Bermudas
Subtitle: The Thrilling Adventures Of Three Boys
Publisher: E.L. Freeman & Son
Published: 1892
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: The old " Neptune " — The three boys decide to sail in her — Parents' farewell — A spoiled egg — Captain Grump growls — Bermuda steamships — A collision — Trouble commences — " So I was." 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: The lads hold an indignation meeting — Mr. Frank is agreeable — Neptune — A figure head — No supper — Watch and Watch — Eight bells — How poor Jack fares — Life at sea with Captain Grump — They get mixed up — "Good morning, Captain Grump " — He laughs ! 17; title: CHAPTER III.; title: "Old Flounders," the cook — Breakfast in the cabin — "Mind you, steward! No butter!" — Flounders cautions the lads to be saving — No napkins — Eugene finds a sea cake hard to crack — Captain Grump means mischief — The dog objects — Eugene undergoes the "bucking" process — " Where did you hide the buttered biscuit ?" — Born to be hung 27; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: '"He's a brute" — The boys' lament — No dinner — Grump retires to his sanctum — A schooner in distress — The bottle — The "Neptune" struck aback — On her beam ends — The cargo shifts — Captain Grump seeks refuge in the main rigging 38; title: CHAPTER V.; title: "Where are the boys ?" — Captain Grump grips the succoring axe — The ship dismasted — Like a monkey on a pole — Old Flounders is lowered to the deck — Wrecked spars and rigging cut adrift — Mr. Frank compliments the boys — At the pumps — Not gaining an inch 48; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: In the Gulf Stream — Five feet of water in the ship's hold — Mr. Frank talks very frankly to Captain Grump — Sailors eat salmon — Tropic bird — Flounders ventures an opinion 50; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: Mr. Frank's painful story — " This has always been a hard ship" — The boys exhausted. 54; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: "O God, she's sinking !" — "We are lost !" — The starboard side, with the captain's quarters, under the waters — The boys and dog imprisoned in the after stateroom of the wreck — How to prevent starvation — A sea waif — The souls of sailors lost at sea 6£; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Biddy's cake and kisses — Six days from home — " Toss is mad "O, do save our cake!" — The rat hullabaloo. Such a splendid chance for a mess of flying-fish — The boys yearn for some of old Flounders' hash 70; title: CHAPTER X.; title: Eight days abandoned — It blows a gale — Impending danger — A terrible night — "A reef! A reef !" — The; title: stranded wreck of the "Neptune ' — In despair — Wrecked on the Bermudas — Oil upon the troubled waters — Neptune ashore 77; title: CHAPTEB XI.; title: Mr. Frank and the crew — " What became of them?" — Old Flounders redivivas — " Where is my poor Captain Grump?" — Four days in an open boat — Saved by a passing ship — Kind treatment — " Land Ho!" — They embark for the Bermudas 8&; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: The boys swim ashore from the wreck — On terra firma — The dog injured — 4 * Thank God, we are saved!" — No water — In nature's garb — Edgar becomes delirious — The birds guide the boys — Bock limpets — Neptune Cove — In their pretty little white coral grove — Cedar berries 91; title: CHAPTER XIII.; title: A howling Nor-wester — They find material for clothing — The cocoa-nut tree — A thorny path to travel — Birds' eggs — In search of food — Ivan invokes fire successfully — Boast tropic bird a failure — " Toss " knows better- Ivan's fireworks — Peter blown up 109; title: CHAPTER XIV.; title: Return to the first island in search of wreckage from the " Neptune " — Necessity is the mother of invention — A cray-fish caught — The dog finds a treasure buried on the.beach — The ship's documents — The bill of fare — The boys go hunting 113; title: CHAPTEE XV.; title: Preparing bird and fish traps — Octopus — The boys work hard — Enchanting sights — Edgar yearns to see a mermaid — Ivan's recitation 124; title: CHAPTER XVI.; title: Boat ahoy! " — The lads are disappointed — A huge shark captured — Whales torn to pieces by these voracious monsters — Reliable Bermudian shark stories — Exploring the ruins — Another bill of fare — Eugene has a narrow escape — A cavern discovered 133; title: CHAPTER XVII.; title: Chilled ambition and a good appetite — Ghosts — Skeletons — Hidden treasures discussed — A shark's liver — A live conch — Conch soup — A conch-shell natural trumpet 143; title: CHAPTER XVIII.; title: A magnificent chamber of glittering stalactites — The ghosts explained — New discoveries — Human handiwork traced in the subterranean vaults — A horrible man-trap — Ivan's triumph — The pirate's home — Finding the copper kettle — Emerald — Ambergris — Successful explorations — Daylight once more 151; title: CHAPTER XIX.; title: Inscription on the kettle — Eugene explains to his brothers 161; title: CHAPTER XX.; title: A hurricane sweeps the "still vexed Bermoothes" — The fire is extinguished — Cold breakfast suggested — "Toss" finds a Lord — He's alive — He imparts interesting information to the children — The buccaneers' millions — The lay of the last buccaneer — '* Here, my lad, quick! Jump up on my shoulders!" — " It's Israel! Old Israel!" 166; title: CHAPTEB XXI.; title: The rescue from the island — Israel puts pointed questions — The wrecked Spanish brig — The wonders of the sea — Arrival at the town of St. Georges — In the Consul's charge — News from home — Mr. Frank is overjoyed to find his young friends alive — Mr. Frank building a cedar flail-boat — "Yes, boys, allcedar" — He intends to cross the Gulf Stream in her — A land of flowers — Mr. Collins is introduced, who loves children — Bermuda convict station and British convicts — A turtle dinner — Cablegram to parents and their reply 183; title: CHAPTER XXII.; title: The town of Hamilton — Invalid visitors — The charming islet — The Love Bowl — The " Nea " of the poet Thomas Moore — Bermudian gems — Captain Trott, B. N., and the pirates of long ago — The Peruvian emerald lost and found — The beautiful hostess of the islet-home — The governor of the Bermudas — The Spanish brig, "Pancheto" and her captain — Public buildings and Trinity Church — Marine specimens and curios — The meandrina not artificial — The visitor from the Far "West is chagrined 202; title: CHAPTER XXIII.; title: The schooner "Sally Ann," of Bermuda — For eleven weeks she tramps the ocean from Halifax to these islands — Mr. Donald McPhee Lee relates his adventures — The old Devonshire Parish Church 215; title: CHAPTER XXIV.; title: Mr. Frank's change of character — He neglects his work- Old Flounders turns up, a married man, in the bosom of a family — They visit his domicile — The red, white and blue in Banana lane — Received with honors 235; title: CHAPTER XXV.; title: The jolly male mosquito harmless — " Generall Historie " of Bermuda as described by Captain John Smith in Anno 1624 24&; title: CHAPTER XXVI.; title: Somerset Island — Bermudian yacht-sailing — The old Privateersman and his spouse at Home — A centenarian parrot, en dishabille — Soup-wrecked Polly becomes mo- rose — The good old days 255; title: CHAPTER XXVII.; title: The yacht ashore on the " Staggs" — The pilot knows the rocks — A boat from H. M. Ship " Terror " at the navy-yard renders timely assistance — A pleasant night on a British man-of-war 265; title: CHAPTER XXVIII.; title: At St. Georges — A ship arrives and lands her sick captain — The Grenadier Guards — "England expects every man to do his duty " — An exciting sham fight by land and sea — The Bermuda Volunteer Rifles to the front — The enemy vanquished 269; title: CHAPTER XXIX.; title: Nobby, the boatman, tells a story — St. David's Island and the natives — They meet Christopher Columbus and the giant — Bermudian arrowroot — Blockade runners.. .. 275; title: CHAPTER XXX.; title: A Bermudian cottage — Mr. Frank neglects his work, dresses fastidiously and attempts lawn tennis — A love scene — Wins the heart of a fair Bermudian — " Oh, we're three jolly, jolly, sailor boys!" — The parents arrive and so does Miss Grump — Old Flounders wants to go Also — The boys remain and own the boat 282; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.; title: "A boat! A boat!" Frontispiece.; title: "Old Flounders," the cook of the Neptune 27; title: "Where did you hide the buttered biscuit?" 36; title: Captain Grump grips the succoring axe 44; title: "Such a splendid chance for a mess of flying-fish" 73; title: On terra firma 93; title: The boys at Neptune Cove 107; title: In the pirates' cave 157; title: Mr. Frank building a cedar boat 188; title: The town of Hamilton 211; title: The town of St. Georges 269; title: A Bermudian cottage 283