Chapter I: Front Matter

The Haunted Island

THE HAUNTED
ISLAND

A PIRATE ROMANCE

By
E. H. VISIAK

LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET
MCMX

THE HAUNTED ISLAND

A PIRATE ROMANCE

Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure; His Combustible; His Skeleton Antic Lad. Of his Wisdom; Of his Poesy; His Barbarous Cruelty; His Mighty Power. Of a Volcan on the Island. And of the Ghostly Terror.

_TO
MY MOTHER_

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. SCAMPERING AWAY 11

II. FRANCIS DREAMS A DREAM 19

III. THE CASTAWAYS 22

IV. VILLAINY 27

V. THE ENGLISHMAN’S RELATION. (THE ISLAND) 32

VI. THE ENGLISHMAN’S RELATION CONTINUED. (THE CELL) 38

VII. A HORRIBLE VILLAIN 47

VIII. THALASS 51

IX. OUVERY DELIVERS UP THE CHART 56

X. WE FALL IN WITH THE FLEET OF CAPTAIN MORGAN.
THE BUCCANEER’S HUT 59

XI. THE MAD MAROON 75

XII. THE WARNING SEA 85

XIII. THE GHOST 91

XIV. THE CUT CABLE 100

XV. THE ISLAND OF THE HOLY 104

XVI. SPIES OF CANAAN 106

XVII. DOCTOR COPICUS 114

XVIII. THE RUNNING MAN 120

XIX. THE CLOISTERS. THE DOCTOR AND THE VOLCAN 127

XX. THE PHANTOM VOICE 133

XXI. THE MANUSCRIPTS 138

XXII. THE GLORIOUS PIRATE 142

XXIII. HEY-DIDDLE-DIDDLE! 145

XXIV. A CURSE FALLS UPON THE WOLVES 148

XXV. A GAUDY PICTURE IN A DARK FRAME 153

XXVI. THE TREASURE CHAMBER 162

XXVII. FRANCIS FINDS HIS BROTHER’S WATCH 168

XXVIII. THE GHOST FACE 172

XXIX. THE FLOAT. THE WALKING LAD 176

XXX. HOW NOW? 180

XXXI. NEITHER ONE NOR THE OTHER 184

XXXII. HELL SHORE 188

SUPPLEMENT 192

THE HAUNTED ISLAND