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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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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
38CHAPTER XXXVI. THE SPY.
2CONTENTS.
39CHAPTER XXXVII. ANXIETY.
3CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD.
40CHAPTER XXXVIII. A REVELATION.
4CHAPTER II. THE MINISTER.
41CHAPTER XXXIX. A SEA OF FIRE.
5CHAPTER III. MESSRS. HARPY, QUIRKY, AND MACFARISEE.
42CHAPTER XL. THE LANDING.
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6CHAPTER IV APPLEWOOD.
43CHAPTER XLI. LA CHAPELLE.
7CHAPTER V THE WILL.
44CHAPTER XLII. A PAIR OF COLOURS.
8CHAPTER VI. AMY LEE.
45CHAPTER XLIII. A HALT.
9CHAPTER VII. TWO YOUNG HEARTS.
46CHAPTER XLIV. THE SKIRMISH AT MORNE ROUGE.
10CHAPTER VIII. FROM POETRY TO PROSE AGAIN.
47CHAPTER XLV THE BLANK FUSILADE.
11CHAPTER IX. SEQUEL TO THE STORY OF THE WILL.
48CHAPTER XLVI. CAPTURE OF ST. PIERRE.
12CHAPTER X. MAHOGANY v. LAW
49CHAPTER XLVII. THE CONVENT OF ST. URSULE.
13CHAPTER XI. EDINBURGH IN 1792.
50CHAPTER XLVIII. LA FLEUR D'EPÉE.
14CHAPTER XII. THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE.
51CHAPTER XLIX. THE ASSAULT.
15CHAPTER XIII. THE PRESS-GANG.
52CHAPTER L. "SMITH" OF THE ROYALS.
16CHAPTER XIV. MR. MACROCODILE.
53CHAPTER LI. THE HURRICANE.
17CHAPTER XV THE PRESSING TENDER.
54CHAPTER LII. THE DESERT ISLAND.
18CHAPTER XVI. THE WHITE-SLAVE SHIP.
55CHAPTER LIII. THE TREASURE SHIP.
19CHAPTER XVII. JACK THE MARINE.
56CHAPTER LIV. A SURPRISE.
20CHAPTER XVIII. OVERBOARD.
57CHAPTER LV WE VISIT THE "GALLEON."
21CHAPTER XIX. THE SANDRIDGE LIGHT.
58CHAPTER LVI. KNUCKLEDUSTER'S STORY.
22CHAPTER XX. DICK KNUCKLEDUSTER.
59CHAPTER LVII. A SAIL IN SIGHT!
23CHAPTER XXI. RETRIBUTION.
60CHAPTER LVIII. SAVED!
24CHAPTER XXII. COMPTON RENNEL.
61CHAPTER LIX. CAPTAIN CRANKY.
25CHAPTER XXIII. THE "MAID AND THE MAGPIE."
62CHAPTER LX. THE YELLOW FEVER.
26CHAPTER XXIV SERGEANT DRUMBIRREL.
63CHAPTER LXI. I REJOIN THE REGIMENT.
27CHAPTER XXV HEAD-QUARTERS.
64CHAPTER LXII. THE DOS D'ANE.
28CHAPTER XXVI. THE ROUTE.
65CHAPTER LXIII. THE WORSHIPPERS OF THE DEVIL.
29CHAPTER XXVII. THE "ADDER" FRIGATE.
66CHAPTER LXII. SCIPIO.
30CHAPTER XXVIII. LAND!
67CHAPTER LXV. CAPTURE OF POINT A PETRE.
31CHAPTER XXIX. THE SNAKE.
68CHAPTER LXVI. THE OBEAH NEGRO.
32CHAPTER XXX. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
69CHAPTER LXVII. M. DE THOISY.
33CHAPTER XXXI. THE STORY OF EULALIE.
70CHAPTER LXVIII. A DISCOVERY.
34CHAPTER XXXII. STORY OF EULALIE CONTINUED.
71CHAPTER LXIX. GEORGETTE.
35CHAPTER XXXIII. OUR ESTEEM PROGRESSES.
72CHAPTER LXX. A CRISIS.
36CHAPTER XXXIV. THE MANGROVE CREEK.
73CHAPTER LXXI. CONCLUSION.
37CHAPTER XXXV. THE EMIGRANT PRIEST.
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