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Excerpt: ""In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiosities of Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for a love story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa del libra,—the spice of the book." Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the men whose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribed to them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's army in the Antilles. A duel, nearly similar to that which is described as having taken place on board of the Adder frigate, actually occurred on the deck of one of H.M.'s ships-of-war when lying in a South-American port, in 1821. The situation of the wreck in the Isle of Tortoises was suggested to me by the discovery of a mysterious vessel in a cavern of the island of Baccalieu, when I was at Fort Townsend in Newfoundland, where it excited much speculation. As a few Mexican dollars were found on the rocks near, she was supposed to be Spanish; and such rumours were circulated of the vast treasure she contained, that H.M.S. Comus was despatched from Halifax to investigate the matter; but the hull contained a few dead bodies alone. That the marvellous might not be wanting, there was told a story of a gigantic anchor being thrown by the sea on the desert shore near her. There it lay for a time, till a party came to remove it; but it had vanished, like the treasure,—by no mortal agency, of course!"
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Length14 hrs 36 mins
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Publish dateJan 5, 2024
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
2CONTENTS.
3CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD.
4CHAPTER II. THE MINISTER.
5CHAPTER III. MESSRS. HARPY, QUIRKY, AND MACFARISEE.
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6CHAPTER IV APPLEWOOD.
7CHAPTER V THE WILL.
8CHAPTER VI. AMY LEE.
9CHAPTER VII. TWO YOUNG HEARTS.
10CHAPTER VIII. FROM POETRY TO PROSE AGAIN.
11CHAPTER IX. SEQUEL TO THE STORY OF THE WILL.
12CHAPTER X. MAHOGANY v. LAW
13CHAPTER XI. EDINBURGH IN 1792.
14CHAPTER XII. THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE.
15CHAPTER XIII. THE PRESS-GANG.
16CHAPTER XIV. MR. MACROCODILE.
17CHAPTER XV THE PRESSING TENDER.
18CHAPTER XVI. THE WHITE-SLAVE SHIP.
19CHAPTER XVII. JACK THE MARINE.
20CHAPTER XVIII. OVERBOARD.
21CHAPTER XIX. THE SANDRIDGE LIGHT.
22CHAPTER XX. DICK KNUCKLEDUSTER.
23CHAPTER XXI. RETRIBUTION.
24CHAPTER XXII. COMPTON RENNEL.
25CHAPTER XXIII. THE "MAID AND THE MAGPIE."
26CHAPTER XXIV SERGEANT DRUMBIRREL.
27CHAPTER XXV HEAD-QUARTERS.
28CHAPTER XXVI. THE ROUTE.
29CHAPTER XXVII. THE "ADDER" FRIGATE.
30CHAPTER XXVIII. LAND!
31CHAPTER XXIX. THE SNAKE.
32CHAPTER XXX. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
33CHAPTER XXXI. THE STORY OF EULALIE.
34CHAPTER XXXII. STORY OF EULALIE CONTINUED.
35CHAPTER XXXIII. OUR ESTEEM PROGRESSES.
36CHAPTER XXXIV. THE MANGROVE CREEK.
37CHAPTER XXXV. THE EMIGRANT PRIEST.
38CHAPTER XXXVI. THE SPY.
39CHAPTER XXXVII. ANXIETY.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII. A REVELATION.
41CHAPTER XXXIX. A SEA OF FIRE.
42CHAPTER XL. THE LANDING.
43CHAPTER XLI. LA CHAPELLE.
44CHAPTER XLII. A PAIR OF COLOURS.
45CHAPTER XLIII. A HALT.
46CHAPTER XLIV. THE SKIRMISH AT MORNE ROUGE.
47CHAPTER XLV THE BLANK FUSILADE.
48CHAPTER XLVI. CAPTURE OF ST. PIERRE.
49CHAPTER XLVII. THE CONVENT OF ST. URSULE.
50CHAPTER XLVIII. LA FLEUR D'EPÉE.
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