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Contents.
Page - surprising—Desperate amusements suddenly and fatally brought to a close—An old friend recognized—News—Romata's mad conduct,
242 CHAPTER XXVI. - Mischief brewing—My blood is made to ran cold—Evil consultations and wicked resolves—Bloody Bill attempts to do good and fails—The attack—Wholsale murder—The flight—The escape,
253 CHAPTER XXVII. - Reflections—The wounded man—The squall—True consolation—Death,
264 CHAPTER XXVIII. - Alone on the deep—Necessity the mother of invention—A valuable book discovered—Natural phenomenon—A bright day in my history,
274 CHAPTER XXIX. - The effect of a cannon-shot—A happy reunion of a somewhat moist nature—Retrospects and explanations—An awful dive—New plans—The last of the Coral Island,
279 CHAPTER XXX. - The voyage—The island, and consultation in which danger is scouted as a thing unworthy of consideration—Rats and cats—The native teacher—Awful revelations—Wonderful effects of Christianity,
291 CHAPTER XXXI. - A strange and bloody battle—The lion bearded in his den—Frightful scenes of cruelty, and fears for the future,
308 CHAPTER XXXII. - An unexpected discovery, and a bold, reckless defiance, with its consequences—Plans of escape, and heroic resolves,
317 CHAPTER XXXIII. - The flight—The pursuit—Despair and its results—The lion bearded in his den again—Awful danger threatened and wonderfully averted—A terrific storm,
325 CHAPTER XXXIV. - Imprisonment—Sinking hopes—Unexpected freedom to more than one, and in more senses than one,
337 CHAPTER XXXV. - Conclusion,
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