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The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific By: Harry Collingwood (1851-1922) |
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By Harry Collingwood
A very exciting story. It starts with a severe gale on the Essex coast
of England. A rescue is effected, as a result of which one of the local
fishermen generously adopts an orphan boy they find on the sinking ship. Years later a number of young people set out on a return voyage by sea
to Australia. On the return voyage there is a disastrous fire on board
their ship, the Galatea, as a result of which they and the crew take to
the boats. They are rescued by a vessel that turns out to be a pirate ship, the
captain of which takes them to his island, where he has a number of
ships of various kinds that he has captured. Discovering that one of
his prisoners has designed and built his own fast sailing yacht, the
pirate commands the people to build him a new fast ship, which they set
about doing, and succeed in doing so. Just as the ship is completed two of the party find, in a well written
episode, that there is a major reef of gold on the island. However
they press on with plans to escape, which involves making off with the
new fast ship they have just completed. Just as they are departing there is an earthquake, leading to a volcanic
eruption in the island. This results in the death of their pursuers. Putting two and two together it is realised that one of the people in
this story, who had originally been the boy adopted at the very start of
the book, is the lost child of the uncle of another of the passengers.
The uncle has been miserable ever since the loss of his wife and child,
though he did not know from what ship, and where, they had been lost.
There is a perfectly good reason for this. Needless to say, it all ends
happily, with various marriages, and with the intention of getting back
to the Pirate Island, to see if it has survived the eruption, and if so,
if the gold can be mined. It makes a very good audiobook, that is very gripping, especially at the
point where the original discovery of the gold is made.
THE PIRATE ISLAND
A STORY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD A STORY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. CHAPTER ONE. THE WRECK ON THE "GUNFLEET." It was emphatically "a dirty night." The barometer had been slowly but
persistently falling during the two previous days; the dawn had been red
and threatening, with a strong breeze from S.E.; and as the short dreary
November day waxed and waned this strong breeze had steadily increased
in strength until by nightfall it had become a regular "November gale,"
with frequent squalls of arrowy rain and sleet, which, impelled by the
furious gusts, smote and stung like hail, and cleared the streets almost
as effectually as a volley of musketry would have done. It was not fit for a dog to be out of doors. So said Ned Anger as he
entered the snug bar parlour of the "Anchor" at Brightlingsea, and
drawing a chair close up to the blazing fire of wreck wood which roared
up the ample chimney, flung himself heavily down thereon to await the
arrival of the "pint" which he had ordered as he passed the bar. "And yet there's a many poor souls as has to be out in it, and as is
out in it," returned the buxom hostess, entering at the moment with the
aforesaid pint upon a small tray. "It's to be hoped as none of 'em
won't meet their deaths out there among the sands this fearful night,"
she added, as Ned took the glass from her, and deposited his "tuppence"
in the tray in payment therefor. A sympathetic murmur of concurrence went round the room in response to
this philanthropic wish, accompanied in some instances by doubtful
shakes of the head. "Ay, ay, we all hope that," remarked Dick Bird "Dicky Bird" was the
name which had been playfully bestowed upon him by his chums, and by
which he was generally known "we all hopes that; but I, for one, feels
uncommon duberous about it... Continue reading book >>
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