Dick Sands : The Boy Captain

By Verne, Jules

Book Id: WPLBN0000578636
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Dick Sands : The Boy Captain
Author:	Verne, Jules
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: THE ?PILGRIM.? On the 2nd of February, 1873, the ?Pilgrim,? a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43 degrees 57?, S. and long. 165 degrees 19?, W. She was a schooner, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: PART THE FIRST -- I -- THE ?PILGRIM? -- II -- THE APPRENTICE -- III -- A RESCUE -- IV -- THE SURVIVORS OF THE ?WALDECK? -- V -- DINGO?S SAGACITY -- VI -- A WHALE IN SIGHT -- VII -- PREPARATIONS FOR AN ATTACK -- VIII -- A CATASTROPHE -- IX -- DICK?S PROMOTION -- X -- THE NEW CREW -- XI -- ROUGH WEATHER -- XII -- LAND AT LAST -- XIV -- ASHORE -- XV -- A STRANGER -- XVI -- THROUGH THE FOREST -- XVII -- MISGIVINGS -- XVIII -- A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY -- PART THE SECOND -- I -- THE DARK CONTINENT -- II -- ACCOMPLICES -- III -- ON THE MARCH AGAIN -- IV -- ROUGH TRAVELLING -- V -- WHITE ANTS -- VI -- A DIVING-BELL -- VII -- A SLAVE CARAVAN -- VIII -- NOTES BY THE WAY -- IX -- KAZOND -- X -- MARKET-DAY -- XI -- A BOWL OF PUNCH -- XII -- ROYAL OBSEQUIES -- XIII -- IN CAPTIVITY -- XIV -- A RAY OF HOPE -- XV -- AN EXCITING CHASE -- XVI -- A MAGICIAN -- XVII -- DRIFTING DOWN THE STREAM -- XVIII -- AN ANXIOUS VOYAGE -- XIX -- AN ATTACK -- XX -- A HAPPY REUNION.