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Excerpt: ""Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower; hangs the heavy-fruited tree; Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Locksley Hall. Few travellers penetrate to the Andamans, unless it be an enthusiastic astronomer to witness a rare comet, or an enterprising professor, who happens to be fired with a desire to study the language and the skulls of the aborigines. These islands are as yet sacred from the foot of the globe-trotter, Cook's tourists ignore them, and they lie in serene semi-savage seclusion, in the midst of the Indian Ocean, dimly known to the great outer world as the chief Indian convict settlement, and the scene of Lord Mayo's murder in 1872. The inland portions of the great and lesser Andamans have been but cursorily explored, (those who have made the attempt, having learnt by tragic experience that the inhabitants were addicted to cannibalism); but outlying islets, and fringes of the coast, have been opened up by the Indian Government, and appropriated for the benefit of thousands of convicts (chiefly lifers), who are annually poured into Port Blair - from Galle to the Kyber, from Aden to the borders of China, the cry is still they come!"
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length14 hrs 38 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CONTENTS.
2CHAPTER I. PORT BLAIR.
3CHAPTER II. EXPECTATION.
4CHAPTER III. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
5CHAPTER IV. MISS DENIS HAS VISITORS.
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6CHAPTER V. WHAT IS SHE LIKE?
7CHAPTER VI. QUEEN OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS.
8CHAPTER VII. MR. QUENTIN'S PIANO.
9CHAPTER VIII. "I WAS HIS DEAREST LIZZIE!"
10CHAPTER IX. A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
11CHAPTER X. MR. LISLE FORGETS HIS DINNER.
12CHAPTER XI. THE FINGER OF FATE!
13CHAPTER XII. THE WRECK.
14CHAPTER XIII. "BLUE BEARD'S CHAMBER."
15CHAPTER XIV. "MR. LISLE HAS GIVEN ME A RING."
16CHAPTER XV. "WHY NOT?"
17CHAPTER XVI. "STOLEN FROM THE SEA!"
18CHAPTER XVII. THE BALL.
19CHAPTER XVIII. "BUT WHAT WILL PAPA SAY?"
20CHAPTER XIX. PROOF POSITIVE.
21CHAPTER XX. "A GREAT BATTLE."
22CHAPTER XXI. THE NICOBARS.
23CHAPTER XXII. THE FIRST GRAVE.
24CHAPTER XXIII. "WAS IT POSSIBLE!"
25CHAPTER XXIV. "FAREWELL, PORT BLAIR."
26CHAPTER XXV. THE STEERAGE PASSENGER.
27CHAPTER XXVI. A POOR RELATION.
28CHAPTER XXVII. IN WHICH EVERYTHING IS SETTLED TO MRS. PLATT'S SATISFACTION.
29CHAPTER XXVIII. MALVERN HOUSE.
30CHAPTER XXIX. "YOU REMEMBER MISS DENIS?"
31CHAPTER XXX. FINNIGAN'S MARE.
32CHAPTER XXXI. "CROWMORE CASTLE."
33CHAPTER XXXII. BARRY'S GUESS.
34CHAPTER XXXIII. "THE FANCY."
35CHAPTER XXXIV. "THE SLAVE OF BEAUTY."
36CHAPTER XXXV. "THE APPARITION."
37CHAPTER XXXVI. "THE APPARATUS."
38CHAPTER XXXVII. "IN CONFIDENCE."
39CHAPTER XXXVIII. "SALLY'S SUBSTITUTE."
40CHAPTER XXXIX. "THE MARKET GIRL."
41CHAPTER XL. "BARRY'S CHALLENGE."
42CHAPTER XLI. "THE POACHER'S GHOST."
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