Chapter I: Front Matter

LIST, YE LANDSMEN!

LIST, YE LANDSMEN!

_A ROMANCE OF INCIDENT_

BY
W. CLARK RUSSELL

AUTHOR OF “THE WRECK OF THE ‘GROSVENOR,’” “AN OCEAN TRAGEDY,”
“THE FROZEN PIRATE,” ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
104 & 106 FOURTH AVENUE

COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY
CASSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. I ARRIVE IN THE DOWNS, 1

II. I VISIT MY UNCLE AT DEAL, 10

III. THE GIBBET, 18

IV. I ESCAPE FROM THE PRESS, 27

V. CAPTAIN MICHAEL GREAVES OF THE _Black Watch_, 34

VI. I VIEW THE BRIG, 43

VII. A STRANGE STORY, 53

VIII. A STARTLING PROPOSAL, 62

IX. I FIGHT VAN LAAR, 71

X. WE TRANSHIP VAN LAAR, 82

XI. THE _Rebecca_, 95

XII. THE ROUND ROBIN, 111

XIII. A MIDNIGHT SCARE, 124

XIV. I SEND MY LETTER, 137

XV. THE WHITE WATER, 147

XVI. GREAVES’ ISLAND, 160

XVII. THE SHIP IN THE CAVE, 171

XVIII. WE TRANSHIP THE DOLLARS, 183

XIX. OFF THE ISLAND, 198

XX. WE START FOR HOME, 213

XXI. A FIGHT, 227

XXII. GREAVES SICKENS, 242

XXIII. THE WHALER, 255

XXIV. A SAILOR’S WILL, 267

XXV. AURORA ENTERTAINS US, 284

XXVI. A TRAGIC SHIFT OF COURSE, 300

XXVII. BOL’S RUSE, 315

XXVIII. I SCHEME, 331

XXIX. AMSTERDAM ISLAND, 345

XXX. MY SCHEME, 357

XXXI. A QUAKER SKIPPER, 373

XXXII. MYNHEER TULP, 391

LIST, YE LANDSMEN!