Facing the Flag

By Verne, Jules

Book Id: WPLBN0000578638
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Facing the Flag
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: HEALTHFUL HOUSE. The carte de visited received that day, June 15, 189?, by the director of the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore, without escutcheon or coronet, the name: COUNT D?ARTIGAS. Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil: ?On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound.? The capital of North Carolina?one of the forty-four states of the Union at this epoch?is the rather important town of Raleigh, which is about one hundred and fifty miles in the interior of the province. It is owing to its central position that this city has become the seat of the State legislature, for there are others that equal and even surpass it in industrial and commercial importance, such as Wilmington, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Edenton, Washington, Salisbury, Tarborough, Halifax, and New-Berne. The latter town is situated on estuary of the Neuse River, which empties itself into Pamlico Sound, a sort of vast maritime lake protected by a natural dyke formed by the isles and islets of the Carolina coast.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: CHAP -- I -- Healthful House -- II -- Count d'Artigas -- III -- Kidnapped -- IV -- The Schooner ?Ebba? -- V -- Where am I.--(Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.) -- VI -- On Deck -- VII -- Two Days at Sea -- VIII -- Back Cup -- IX -- Inside Back Cup -- X -- Ker Karraje -- XI -- Five Weeks in Back Cup -- XII -- Engineer Serko?s Advice -- XIII -- God Be with It -- XIV -- Battle Between the ?Sword? and the Tug -- XV -- Expectation -- XVI -- Only a few more Hours -- XVII -- One against Five -- XVIII -- On Board the ?Tonnant