The Coral Island - A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
Ballantyne, Robert Michael 1825-1894
English
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THE
CORAL ISLAND
_A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean_
BY
R. M. BALLANTYNE
PREFACE
I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set
down. With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present
my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive
valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded
amusement from its pages.
One word more. If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy
and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions
of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It
is not meant for him.
RALPH ROVER.
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. MY EARLY LIFE AND CHARACTER
II. THE DEPARTURE--A DREADFUL STORM
III. THE CORAL ISLAND
IV. OUR ISLAND DESCRIBED--CURIOUS DISCOVERIES
V. ENCHANTING EXCURSIONS AMONG THE CORAL GROVES
VI. AN EXCURSION INTO THE INTERIOR
VII. HORRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH A SHARK
VIII. THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA TEMPT PETERKIN TO DIVE
IX. PREPARE FOR A JOURNEY ROUND THE ISLAND
X. MAKE DISCOVERY OF MANY EXCELLENT ROOTS AND FRUITS
XI. EFFECTS OF OVER-EATING, AND REFLECTIONS THEREON
XII. SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE TANK
XIII. NOTABLE DISCOVERY AT THE SPOUTING CLIFFS
XIV. STRANGE PECULIARITY OF THE TIDES
XV. BOAT-BUILDING EXTRAORDINARY
XVI. THE BOAT LAUNCHED--WE VISIT THE CORAL REEF
XVII. A MONSTER WAVE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
XVIII. AN AWFUL STORM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
XVIX. AN UNEXPECTED VISIT AND AN APPALLING BATTLE
XX. INTERCOURSE WITH THE SAVAGES--CANNIBALISM PREVENTED
XXI. A SAIL!--AN UNEXPECTED SALUTE
XXII. I FALL INTO THE HANDS OF PIRATES
XXIII. A STRANGE SAIL, AND A STRANGE CREW
XXIV. UNPLEASANT PROSPECTS
XXV. THE SANDAL-WOOD PARTY
XXVI. MISCHIEF BREWING--MY BLOOD IS MADE TO RUN COLD
XXVII. REFLECTIONS--THE WOUNDED MAN
XXVIII. ALONE ON THE DEEP--NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
XXIX. THE EFFECT OF A CANNON-SHOT
XXX. THE VOYAGE
XXXI. A STRANGE AND BLOODY BATTLE
XXXII. AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY
XXXIII. THE FLIGHT--THE PURSUIT
XXXIV. IMPRISONMENT--SINKING HOPES
XXXV. CONCLUSION
THE CORAL ISLAND
Chapter I
The beginning--My early life and character--I thirst for
adventure in foreign lands, and go to sea.
Roving has always been, and still is, my ruling passion, the joy of my
heart, the very sunshine of my existence. In childhood, in boyhood, and
in man's estate, I have been a rover; not a mere rambler among the
woody glens and upon the hilltops of my own native land, but an
enthusiastic rover throughout the length and breadth of the wide, wide
world.
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