Chapter I: Front Matter

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: AMID THE CHEERS OF THE BAND OF BRITISHERS THE ENSIGN WAS BROKEN AT THE MASTHEAD. See page 68]

THE NAMELESS ISLAND

A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

_Author of "The Young Cavalier," etc._

London

C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.

Henrietta Street

1920

_Second Impression_

STORIES OF ADVENTURE.

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_

Each Volume contains Eight Full-Page Illustrations by a well-known Artist

The Boys of the Otter Patrol.

A Tale of the Boy Scouts. By E. Le Breton-Martin.

Kiddie of the Camp.

A Scouting Story of the Western Prairies. By Robert Leighton.

Otters to the Rescue.

A Sequel to "The Boys of the Otter Patrol." By E. Le Breton-Martin.

The Clue of the Ivory Claw.

By F. Haydn Dimmock.

'Midst Arctic Perils.

By P. F. Westerman.

The Phantom Battleship.

By Rupert Chesterton.

Kiddie the Scout.

A Sequel to "Kiddie of the Camp." By Robert Leighton.

The Lost Trooper.

A Tale of the Great North-West. By F. Haydn Dimmock.

The Brigand of the Air.

By Christopher Beck.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE HURRICANE
II. AGROUND
III. ABANDONED
IV. THE LANDING
V. THE CAMP
VI. THE ANIMAL THAT WOULDN'T BE RESCUED
VII. THE EMBLEM OF EMPIRE
VIII. "A SAIL!"
IX. UNWELCOME VISITORS
X. STRANGE ALLIES
XI. THE FRUSTRATED SACRIFICE
XII. AT BAY
XIII. ELLERTON TO THE RESCUE
XIV. ROUTING THE SAVAGES
XV. A KNIFE-THRUST IN THE DARK
XVI. THE GALE
XVII. BACK TO THE ISLAND
XVIII. A SURPRISE FOR THE INVADERS
XIX. THE PRISONER'S ESCAPE
XX. THE ENEMY IS CORNERED
XXI. THE BUCCANEERS' CAVE
XXII. THE TREASURE CHAMBER
XXIII. "A SAIL! A SAIL!"
XXIV. A FALSE AND A REAL ALARM
XXV. THE GREAT INVASION
XXVI. A GREAT DISASTER
XXVII. THE LAST STAND
XXVIII. THE RESCUE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Amid the cheers of the band of Britishers the ensign was
broken at the masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

Ellerton was only just in time. Another dazzling flash enabled
him to see the helpless form of the crippled seaman

Andy, finding the bull close to his heels, gripped a rope and
swung himself into a position of comparative safety

The chief's canoe was paddled slowly towards the shore

Crash! fair in the centre of the lightly built fifty-feet hull
struck the sharp stem

"A sail! a sail!" he exclaimed breathlessly

A huge turtle had crawled across the beach and ... had set the
alarm bell ringing

With fierce shouts the savages tore down the path straight for
the barricade

THE NAMELESS ISLAND