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A Chapter
of
Adventures
BY
G. A. HENTY
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BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Alfred Henty was born near Cambridge in 1832, and educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He volunteered for service in the Crimean War, and after some varied experiences adopted a journalistic career. He served as war correspondent of the _Standard_ during the Austro-Italian campaign of 1866, and was afterwards a correspondent in the Abyssinian War, the Franco-German War, the Ashanti War, &c. His first book for boys was published in 1868, and was followed by a long and very successful series, including _The Young Franc-Tireurs_ (1872), _In Times of Peril_ (1881), _Under Drake's Flag_ (1883), _With Clive in India_ (1884), _The Lion of the North_ (1886), _Orange and Green_ (1888), _The Lion of St. Mark_ (1889), _By Pike and Dyke_ (1890), _By Right of Conquest_ (1891), _With Moore at Corunna_ (1898), _With Kitchener in the Soudan_ (1903), and _With the Allies to Pekin_ (1904). He died in 1902.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. Page
I. A FISHING VILLAGE 5
II. CAUGHT BY THE TIDE 15
III. A RUN FROM HARWICH 27
IV. THE WRECK 37
V. THE RESCUE 46
VI. ALTERED PROSPECTS 57
VII. ON BOARD THE _WILD WAVE_ 69
VIII. ALEXANDRIA 78
IX. THE RIOT IN ALEXANDRIA 89
X. PRISONERS 99
XI. THE BOMBARDMENT 110
XII. FREE 120
XIII. AMONG FRIENDS 131
XIV. A SET OF RASCALS 143
XV. A THREATENING SKY 153
XVI. OLD JOE'S YARN 163
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. Henty
- 2: The bawleys have returned from the fishing grounds
- 3: That being the regular crew of a bawley
- 4: And another two hundred in buying a bawley
- 5: The Bessy for so Ben Tripper had named his bawley
- 6: One peculiarity of the bawleys is that
- 7: Jack was very fond of talking to the coast guardsmen
- 8: There is the Yarmouth steamer going up
- 9: And would carry more than a ton of cockles if filled up
- 10: And the grapnel ain't holding her a bit
- 11: You had better take Joe on your shoulders
- 12: And here the grapnel had brought it up
- 13: Robson asked as her son entered the house
- 14: Sometimes the sprats are abundant
- 15: Ben Tripper said one Friday evening
- 16: I will run down to the Naze anyhow
- 17: Then you must keep a sharp look out for the Spitway Buoy
- 18: Tripper was standing beside him
- 19: At last they were through the swashway
- 20: The foresail was lowered and the mainsail partly brailed up
- 21: After watching the spar for a minute
- 22: They have got a good strong hawser on it
- 23: Now let go the cable and hawser
- 24: There are few boats will beat a bawley
- 25: There is no James Godstone now
- 26: So I hear the Bessy has been helping a wreck
- 27: Robson opening it saw two ladies and a girl
- 28: Godstone felt a little at a loss
- 29: He does not think the keel is damaged
- 30: Murchison had gone home two days before
- 31: And she thought that by buying a bawley
- 32: Robson thankfully accepted the offer
- 33: Godstone has just made me with regard to Lily and myself
- 34: Godstone and his wife had left Leigh
- 35: I will speak to the head rigger myself
- 36: Timmins said to him as he was about to leave
- 37: Jack had not returned home on Monday or Tuesday night
- 38: Jim Tucker began as he entered
- 39: Headed by a general named Arabi Pasha
- 40: The Egyptians are gentlemen by the side of them
- 41: There are some long knives in that cupboard
- 42: Without attempting to ascend the stairs
- 43: The smoke rose thicker and thicker
- 44: The police made no attempt whatever to put down the riot
- 45: If the great insurrection that was already planned failed
- 46: Jim's face was swollen and bruised all over
- 47: The Egyptians grinned and nodded
- 48: Without much difficulty the melon was cut into three parts
- 49: And chuck it out through the opening
- 50: WHILE the riot had been going on
- 51: And prevented the riot from extending
- 52: That Arabi and his troops were masters of Alexandria
- 53: Among them Forts Mex and Marabout
- 54: They engaged the Marabout Fort
- 55: Been directed mainly against these great cannon
- 56: The bey took possession of the cottage
- 57: Guided by the glare of light over Alexandria
- 58: There is maize and grain ripe in the fields
- 59: And had finished their maize and water
- 60: And lashed them in these positions
- 61: Lord Charles Beresford will not be long before he is back
- 62: Followed by a sailor bringing a large bundle
- 63: Lord Charles Beresford being away at work
- 64: Marched through the streets disarming the Egyptian soldiers
- 65: The khedive has a summer palace at Ramleh
- 66: And the plundering had been almost put a stop to
- 67: Jim agreed to the prudence of the suggestion
- 68: And themselves without weapons
- 69: Accordingly in the evening they walked up to Ramleh
- 70: While the British columns returned to Ramleh
- 71: And as Lord Wolseley arrived two days ago
- 72: But when off the Cape encountered a heavy gale
- 73: And three of them was down in these 'ere latitudes
- 74: There is a berg straight ahead
- 75: The berg sheltered me from the wind
- 76: I was on the top of the berg at daybreak
- 77: This was a spot in the lower terrace
- 78: I thought of oil from their blubber
- 79: Which I set down to them cabbages
- 80: And was soon down again on the books of Godstone Son
- 81: Her decks were black with niggers
- 82: And Tom and I and about sixty niggers
- 83: While Mwango took service with the Portuguese
- 84: Timmins told them that they were now abreast of Madras
- 85: Timmins was speaking about the other day
- 86: Timmins clinging to the bulwarks
- 87: Hoare came down from the poop and dived into the cabin
- 88: The centre of the cyclone is moving along all the time
- 89: Once in the breakers it would be swamped instantly
- 90: The vessel was among the breakers
- 91: The fate of their shipmates had depressed them profoundly
- 92: Arthur seized the half gourd that Jack had picked up
- 93: In the shaded verandah a lady was sitting reading
- 94: Godstone and his wife as one of the family