Chapter II: Book III: Adrift on an Echoless Ocean

I. MUTINY AND DEATH 203

II. THE DOOM OF THE MUTINEERS 214

III. THE DREAD STILLNESS BROKEN BY A WAILING SHRIEK 222

IV. WHAT A WORLD OF LIFE WAS EVERYWHERE AROUND THEM 233

V. A LONG LOST DERELICT 247

VI. THE CRUNCHING NOISE ADDED TO THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION 254

VII. THE BALLOON HAD BURST IN MID AIR 263

VIII. STRANGE ADVENTURES--SECRETS OF THE SEA 273

IX. AT THE DERELICT AGAIN 283

X. “SAYS GRANNIE, ‘JOHNNIE,’ SHE SAYS, ‘YOU’RE GOIN’ HOME’” 294

XI. “WHERE CAN MEN DIE BETTER THAN IN FACING FEARFUL ODDS?” 300

XII. “NO HELP! NO HOPE! AND DAY AFTER DAY FLEW BY” 305

XIII. “SO PASSED THE LONG, BRIGHT HOURS AWAY” 312

XIV. BROTHER JOSÉ’S STORY, AND DAVIE DRAKE’S LITTLE JOKE 324